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Photoelectric effect.===================================== This phenomenon was discovered by Albert Einstein, for which he received the Nobel Prize for Physics. The solar cells that we use today is a direct application of the photoelectric effect, as the special metal absorbs Sun's photons and gives off electron (and the flow of electrons generates an electric current).

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