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  • noun An electron released or ejected from a substance by the photoelectric effect.

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  • noun physics An electron ejected from the surface of a material by the photoelectric effect

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  • noun an electron that is emitted from an atom or molecule by an incident photon

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Examples

  • Castleman and his team -- which includes Samuel Peppernick, a former Penn State graduate student who now is a postdoctoral researcher at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Dasitha Gunaratne, a Penn State graduate student -- used a technique, called photoelectron imaging spectroscopy, to examine similarities between titanium monoxide and nickel, zirconium monoxide and palladium, and tungsten carbide and platinum.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • The front of the photoelectron current runs along the anode surface with faster-than-light superluminal speed and provides the in-phase summation of radiation fluxes from elementary sources.

    World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today 2010

  • Rosenberg used X-rays from the Advanced Photon Source to bombard chiral molecules adsorbed on a magnetic substrate and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to track changes in the molecular bonds.

    Can't We All Be Friends? 2008

  • Analysis of arsenic and some other elements in coal fly ash by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy [An article from: Journal of Hazardous Materials] by A. Ohki

    A Short Journey: Micrometeorites to Coal Contamination (Article with photographs of both") 2009

  • “Well, in some sense we should have expected, if the recent models are correct, to see them on the dark side where the photoelectron abundance is low,” Porco said of the spokes.

    The Spokes in Saturn’s Rings | Impact Lab 2005

  • Raman studies, rebuilt a flash photolysis machine and built a microwave spectrometer and started to do photoelectron spectroscopy.

    Harold Kroto - Autobiography 1997

  • I started to build up a microwave laboratory to probe unstable molecules and Michael Lappert encouraged me to use his photoelectron spectrometer to carry out work independently.

    Harold Kroto - Autobiography 1997

  • "The hypothesis that this Thescelosaurus has a preserved heart was controversial, and therefore, we reexamined it using higher-resolution computed tomography, paleohistological examination, X-ray diffraction analysis, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy."

    USATODAY.com News 2011

  • A lens that enables scientists to use X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to analyze liquid/gas and solid/gas interactions at ambient pressures and should accelerate the development of more efficient catalysts, improve fuel cells and solar cells and provide a greater understanding of the effect of atmospheric pollutants on ozone.

    R&D Mag - News 2010

  • Molecular frame image restoration and partial wave analysis of photoionization dynamics of NO by time-energy mapping of photoelectron angular distribution.

    innovations-report 2010

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