Re: Photoelectricity and superconductivity

Bhu*** Joshipura wrote:

I am not a physicist, continuing my wonder about superconductivity.

Library.

If I understand concepts properly,

photoelectricity: when light of certain frequency or higher strikes
surface of some materials, electric voltage is generated

Google
"work function" vacuum

superconductivity: superconductors have zero voltage drop across their
surface no matter how much current flows through

Badly put. Look up the difference between Type I and Type II
supercons, and what the magnetic field associated with current flow
does to each. Lossless superconductivity is strictly a DC phenomenon,
etc.

What happens when superconductor material is subjected to conditions
leading to photoelectricity? The material is supposed to generate
voltage but it can't, right?

Thanks in advance,
-Bhu***

Bhu*** indeed. Look up impedence at a boundary phase discontinuity.

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