Photovoltaic Becquerel effect

To choose the most effective working pigment from that abundance is extremely difficult, especially as the theoretical assumptions for this choice are almost none. At certain stages one has to use intuitively guided screening to detect certain patterns that will eventually lead to the creation of a more or less acceptable theoiy. Thus, in comparison of the photocatalytic activity (the photovoltaic Becquerel effect) of thin films of TPC with different macrocycle structure it was noted that the maximum photocurrent (y and photopotential (U j ) are given... 

The electrochemical photovoltaic effect was discovered in 1839 by A. E. Becquerelt when a silver/silver halide electrode was irradiated in a solution of diluted HN03. Becquerel also first described the photogalvanic effect in a cell consisting of two Pt electrodes, one immersed in aqueous and the other in ethanolic solution of Fe(C104)3. This discovery was made about the same time as the observation of the photovoltaic effect at the Ag/AgX electrodes. The term Becquerel effect often appears in the old literature, even for denoting the vacuum photoelectric effect which was discovered almost 50 years later. The electrochemical photovoltaic effect was elucidated in 1955 by W. H. Brattain and G. G. B. Garrett the theory was further developed... 

The photovoltaic effect, where an internal elecromotive force is created, was discovered by Becquerel (106) in 1839 in an electrolyte with selenium but the effect in a metal—Se contact was first reported by Adams and Day (107) in 1876. The first practical photovoltaic cell was constmcted by Uljanin (108) in 1888. 

In 1839 Alexandre-Edmtmd Becquerel, a French experimental physicist, did the earliest recorded experiments with the photovoltaic effect. Becquerel discovered the photovoltaic effect while experimenting with an electrolytic cell made up of two metal... 

Williams R (1960) Becquerel photovoltaic effect in binary compounds. J Chem Phys 32 1505-1514... 

In 1839 in Paris, nineteen year old experimenter Edmund Becquerel discovered the photovoltaic effect when he found that certain materials would produce electricity when exposed to light. In that same year William Grove experimented with reversing the process of electrolysis and invented the first gas battery or fuel cell. In the 21st century, these three discoveries converge in photovoltaic fuel cell system technology. 

Becquerel Photovoltaic Effect in Binary Compounds. Appears to be the first study on die mechanism of the photovoltaic effect on a CdS/electrolyte interface. 486... 

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