Abstract

Fowler's hypothesis commonly used to interpret results of photoemission into the vacuum has been extended to deal with the problem of internal photoemission. This leads to the empirical relation $Y\ensuremath{\propto}{(E\ensuremath{-}{E}_{t})}^{2}$ between the quantum efficiency $Y$ and the photon energy $E$, currently used to interpret hole photoemission experiments. ${E}_{t}$ is the threshold energy for photoemission. Various cases of internal electron and hole photoemission between metals and semiconductors are discussed.

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