Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to the electric effects of electromagnetic radiation, especially the ejection of an electron from a surface by a photon.
WordNet
adj. of or pertaining to photoelectricity; "the photoelectric effect" [syn: photoelectrical]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "photoelectric".
Izzard with photoelectric eyes so that the analyzer could see inside the vault.
The few electrons which come from the photoelectric screen are demagnified down to a very tiny area so that, again, they are very intense.
In his hand, Lester's, was a device containing an automatic switch that operated on photoelectric command.
There was talk of climate control with the aid of very large photoconverters, and of photoelectric cells—.
Men's minds were too valuable to waste on tasks that a few thousand transistors, some photoelectric cells, and a cubic metre of printed circuits could perform.
And all around the coastline of the continental C Ideolog, whole areas of ocean became covered with a molecular photoelectric film, excreted by the actions of an engineered algae.
A chap called Max Planck kicked it off in nineteen hundred with something he called the quantum theory of light, and Albert Einstein moved it along in nineteen oh five with his work on the photoelectric effect.
A simpler way might be this (though I am not sure it would work): We take light and, through an optical microscope running backwards, we focus it onto a very small photoelectric screen.
But in 1905, Einstein showed that the particle theory of light could explain the photoelectric effect, the ejection of electrons from a metal upon exposure to a beam of light.
There was talk of climate control with the aid of very large photoconverters, and of photoelectric cells—which, however, had no connection with the focus of cold at the equator.
Pardon me, Struthers, he said, breaking into the middle of a lecture on the photoelectric cell, havent you a section of the factory where only robot labor is employed?
It's a safe bet no Roamer could get his hands on a photoelectric cell and a storage battery.
The beam struck a photoelectric cell on the end of the warehouse, and this closed a relay, and an electrical apparatus operated to open the door.
We used a photoelectric cell to govern the iris setting, but you can control that to some extent.
I've wondered what happened to that spare photoelectric cell we had at the lab.