There are two described effects. The photoelectric and photovoltaic effects. The photovoltaic effect shows a current induced by narrow frequency ranges of incident radiation. The photoelectric effect has usually a metal conductor with an external voltage applied conduct a greater current when exposed to all incident radiation above a certain frequency. As compared to the voltaic effect which only produces a current in narrow frequency ranges above a base frequency.
What is not so clear in conventional physics is the separation between them. The photovoltaic effect is essentially light shining on a detector, and inducing an electric current. As with solar panels. Here the effect is consistent with a wave only model of light, contrary to the erroneous unsubstantiated claims made by theorists determined to prove the photon model as being the only model consistent with observations.
Simply put the atom in a wave model is a resonant system, rather than the particulate standard model with electrons , protons etc. And as observations have shown, all resonant systems respond to narrow frequency ranges and emit this input energy in pulses called resonant catastrophe. And this is observed in solar panels where incident radiation in narrow frequency bands "liberate electrons". That is incident wave radiation in narrow frequency ranges are absorbed and re emitted by the detector atoms in quantised pulses to the circuit.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8H9kx9_sQYA
The photoelectric effect appears to be a gross misrepresentation by supporters of the photon model. Nowhere is it made clear if the photoelectric effect actually produces excess current than that already supplied by the external voltage pd applied. It appears no excess is supplied. Whatever happens in the "photoelectric" effect, it is not the case that an excess current is induced by the incident radiation. Hence, there is no legitimacy in the claims it cannot be described by a wave only model. Simply put, no excess current is induced by the incident radiation in the first place. So it is erroneous to conclude that a wave model cannot explain why an imaginary excess current has not been produced by incident radiation! Typical lies and misrepresentation from relativists and standard model theorists.
