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... energy of the least tightly held electrons ( subatomic nega- tively charged particles ) within a solid , named after Enrico Fermi , the physicist who first proposed it . A material with a lower Fermi level holds electrons more tightly ...
... energy of the least tightly held electrons ( subatomic nega- tively charged particles ) within a solid , named after Enrico Fermi , the physicist who first proposed it . A material with a lower Fermi level holds electrons more tightly ...
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... energy levels in atoms , performed ( 1914 ) by the German - born physicists James Franck and Gustav Hertz . They directed low- energy electrons through a gas enclosed in an electron tube . As the energy of the electrons was slowly ...
... energy levels in atoms , performed ( 1914 ) by the German - born physicists James Franck and Gustav Hertz . They directed low- energy electrons through a gas enclosed in an electron tube . As the energy of the electrons was slowly ...
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... energy in a nu- cleus is directly transferred to one of its own orbiting electrons , thereby ejecting the elec- tron from the atom . In internal pair pro- duction , excess energy is directly converted within the electromagnetic field of ...
... energy in a nu- cleus is directly transferred to one of its own orbiting electrons , thereby ejecting the elec- tron from the atom . In internal pair pro- duction , excess energy is directly converted within the electromagnetic field of ...
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