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Undergrad Why Are Octahedral Complexes the Most Common in Crystal Field Theory?
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Undergrad Why transition metals can have unpaired electrons in their compounds?
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Undergrad Doping with impurities does what to Silicon?
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Undergrad Why is the Energy Level Higher on the P Side of a PN Junction Diode?
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Undergrad Valence electrons in insulators
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Undergrad How does stimulated emmision work?
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Undergrad Programming the Nearly Free Electron Model Band Diagram for BCC and FC
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Undergrad What is the relationship between wavelength and excited shells in atoms?
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Undergrad Why do charges accumulate at grain boundaries?
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Undergrad Understanding Eutectic Compositions: The Science Behind Melting Points
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Undergrad Why does the atomic radii get smaller from the left to right?
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Undergrad Universal Gas constant and arrhenius equation
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Undergrad Main reason why semiconductor is used and not a pure metal for detec
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Undergrad Resistance of graphene dispersion
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Undergrad Comparison of DFB edge emitting laser vs. VCSEL
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Undergrad Phonons: What Are They and How Do They Work?
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Undergrad What is the Energy of One Hydrogen Atom?
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Undergrad Carbon Atom Arrangement in Organic Compounds: Exploring Covalent Bond Angles
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Undergrad Why does platinum adsorb hydrogen
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Undergrad What is the difference between bulk, cluster, and molecule in material science?
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Undergrad Why Must the Wavelength Be Smaller Than the Interplanar Spacing in Bragg's Law?
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Undergrad Piezoelectric materials within a vacuum
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Undergrad Why Does Energy Behavior Differ in Particle in a Box Model Versus Bohr's Theory?
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Undergrad Position of holes in p-type semiconductors
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Undergrad Chromium/Vanadiam Sublimation or Melting
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Undergrad Drift and diffusion in semiconductors
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Undergrad Why building a BJT transistor out of two diodes is impossible?
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Undergrad Hydrogen isotopes in palladium
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Undergrad Mass-action Law(extrinsic conductor)
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Undergrad Atomic Structure of Wet Oxidized Silicon
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Undergrad Why Can Electrons in the Conduction Band Move Around so Easily
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Undergrad Best solid state physics video course
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Undergrad The meaning of a symbol in Atomic Theory
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Undergrad Understand the Metropolis Algorithm - Physics Student Guide
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Undergrad Why does a zener diode sustain high reverse current?
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Undergrad Beta Minus Decay: Questions & Answers
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Undergrad What is the energy conversion in a forward biased silicon diode?
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Undergrad The axes in Raman spectroscopy
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Undergrad Why does regularity bring stability?
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Undergrad Exponential Binning: Plotting Data with f(x) = x^α
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Undergrad Hall effect for p-type semiconductor
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Undergrad Fermi level in n-type or p-type semiconductors
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Undergrad Atom distance and repulsive energy
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Undergrad Confused about the sizes of atomic particles
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Undergrad A question about photoconductivity and photoresistors
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Undergrad Young's modulus value of Ferrous Tungsten
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Undergrad Relation between RAMAN Intensity and Energy of the photon
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Undergrad What's the difference between lattice vectors and basis vectors?
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Undergrad What Are Ritz Wavelengths in the NIST Atomic Spectra Database?
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Undergrad Atomic Spectra: Study of Symmetrical Lines from n=1
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Undergrad Can cooling lasers extract energy and reach absolute zero?
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Undergrad Chemical Potential: Formula for Finding Molecular/Atomic Potential
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Undergrad Difference between Primitive cell, unit cell and a wigner-seitz cell.
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Undergrad What are the various applications of superconductors?
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Undergrad What Makes Iron Ferromagnetic?
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Undergrad Doubts about basics of superconductivity.
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Undergrad What materials can be used as a superconductor?
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Undergrad Which Materials Are Good Electron-Hole Conductors and Affordable?
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Undergrad Best material for IR absorption
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Undergrad Bragg Law and Effect of Doubling Wavelength
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Undergrad Calculate ERFC in Fortran 77 | Help ERFC Fortran 77
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Undergrad Atomic Energy: Missing Electron Impact
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Undergrad Average Binding energy per Nucleon
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Undergrad Gravity as simply being the cumulative effect of atomic particles?
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Undergrad Understanding Cycle Process w/ Diatomic Ideal Gas
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Undergrad Value of the constant in 'variation of refractive index'
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Undergrad Solar cell open circuit voltage and bandgap
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Undergrad Diode and doping on N and P regions
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Undergrad Purpose of Air Gap in Gas Lasers
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Undergrad Emission spectra and energy levels in atoms
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Undergrad Understanding the Six Degrees of Freedom in Crystal Structures
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Undergrad Electron excitation and velocity
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Undergrad High temperature superconductors
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Undergrad Simulating Sub-Atomic Particles
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Undergrad Can We See Real Images of Atoms and Molecules Today?
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Undergrad Equilibrium Distribution of Electrons and Holes
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Undergrad What is the Franck-Condon principle?
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Undergrad Closed electron configuration equivalent to closed shell
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Undergrad Creating Input Files in Quantum Espresso: A Beginner's Guide
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Undergrad What is the work function of AlGaN and how can it be calculated?
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Undergrad Thickness of Graphene: Theory & Measurement
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Undergrad Why Do Atoms (generally) Follow The Octet Rule?
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Undergrad Looking for atomic energy level database
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Undergrad What is the meaning of diffusion coefficient?
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Undergrad Bose-Einstein-Condensate and Superposition
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Undergrad Understanding Ice Crystal Formation
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Undergrad Calculating force between atoms
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Undergrad Why is Carbon-12 used as the measurement of relative masses?
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Undergrad Why is graphene only a recent discovery?
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Undergrad Can You Extract a Single Molecule from Your Body and Examine It?
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Undergrad Help with Half Life: Confused on A=DecayConstant*N and ln(2)
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Undergrad Gas temperature increase by pressure
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Undergrad When to use HYBRIdiZED ORBITAL?
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Undergrad Research Topics in Quantum Dots for Undergrad Summer Research?
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Undergrad Is there a method of lowering linear expansion of a material?
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Undergrad Few basic questions about p-n junction
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Undergrad Graphene supercapacitor production using scotch tape
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Undergrad Methods of cooling matter to extremely low temperatures
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Undergrad About fermi levels in extrensic semiconductors.
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