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Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: work function
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Symbol: Φ
Definition: least energy required for the emission of a conduction electron

NOTE Work function is the energy difference between an electron at rest at infinity and an electron at the Fermi level in the interior of a substance.


Publication date:2011-04
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