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The stopping voltage where the current goes to zero is proportional to the KE of the electron.

Simply detecting a photocurrent doesn't tell you the electron's energy. You could try and find the photon energy where the PEE just barely works, but what if you don't have a continuously-tunable light source? (which most people don't). But a retarding potential is easily tuned.

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