In a flash: artist's impression of the photoelectric effect. (Courtesy: Technical University of Vienna) Just 45 quintillionth of a second (45 attoseconds) is all it takes for a photon to liberate an ...

When Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, he was immediately thrown in to the spotlight of the scientific world, and which has stayed on him for nearly 100 years. He won it for his ...

FRANKFURT. It is now exactly one hundred years ago that Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect. The jury had not yet really understood his ...

June 9, 2022, marks 117 years since Einstein published his groundbreaking paper on the photoelectric principle. The analysis was published on June 9, 1905, also known as Einstein’s “miracle year” ...

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However, with wavelengths of only 13 nanometers and high radiation intensities of several petawatt per square centimeter something else – at least with some atoms – happens: With xenon, a whole ...

Almost a hundred years ago, Albert Einstein won a Nobel Prize for his research on the phenomenon. The photoelectric effect is the emission of electrons when electromagnetic radiation, such as light, ...

The photoelectric effect refers to what happens when electrons are emitted from a material that has absorbed electromagnetic radiation. Physicist Albert Einstein was the first to describe the effect ...

Detecting gravity: Researchers have proposed an experiment that could detect the elusive graviton – a quantum of gravity – using quantum sensing. (Courtesy: Pikovski research group) According to ...

Albert Einstein never won a Nobel prize for the theory of relativity—in fact, it was only through long, political jockeying within the Nobel committee that he won the prize at all. Instead, when he ...

When light hits a material, electrons can be released from this material -- the photoelectric effect. Although this effect played a major role in the development of the quantum theory, it still holds ...