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Many thanks for the replis, i think i understand this now better.

Thanks for the reply, however I'm still confused. As far as i understand: in this case of photoelectric absorption, Φ is not the work function but the binding energy, eg. for Si it has values over 100 eV. I'm especially interested in detection of low energy photons (250-400 eV). Example...

As far as i understand, this is the principle of solid state x-ray detectors: 1. A photon of energy E enters the detector and goes through photoelectric absorption 2. As a result a photoelectron with energy (E - Φ) is ejected, where Φ is the binding energy required to eject the photoelectron...