auger effect

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noun auger effect the spontaneous emission of an electron instead of a photon by an excited ion as a result of a vacancy being filled in an inner electron shell 3
noun auger effect the excitation of electrons within an atom initiated by the absorption of energy and accompanied by the emission of an electron 3
noun auger effect a nonradiative process in which an atom in an excited state undergoes a transition to a lower state by the emission of a bound electron (Auger electron) rather than by the emission of an x-ray. 1
noun auger effect The secondary emission of an electron following the ionisation of a core electron of an atom. 0

before 1930

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1930-35; named after Pierre V. Auger (born 1899), French physicist

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