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Episode 59: Photovoltaic Materials

Materialism: A Materials Science Podcast

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Photovoltaics - The Photoelectric Effect

The photoelectric effect, this goes way back to like the 1800s. It's actually one of the things Albert Einstein got his Nobel Prize for along with relativity. The process that you can liberate these electrons and all of a sudden they become conductors if you provide enough energy is kind of the basis of photovoltaics.

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