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Graduate Scherrer Formula and interpreting values

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Undergrad About creating standing wave with laser

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Undergrad How Is the Energy of the Conduction Band Determined in N-Doped Germanium?

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Undergrad How does a Point Force Affect a Piezoelectric?

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Undergrad Quarks in a Mole: Hydrogen, Plutonium & the Periodic Chart

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Graduate What is the book mentioned in this webpage about band bending?

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High School Do atoms give off radiation that determines the colour?

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Graduate What is the most complex structure you can simulate at home?

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Undergrad Inverse of Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution and Planck's Law?

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High School Are Energy Bands a Result of Superposition or Entanglement of Electrons?

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Graduate Understanding Modified Bragg's Law with Derivation and Examples

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Undergrad Can Carbon in the Air Be Transformed into Graphene?

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Undergrad Energy spectrum of a chain of quantum oscillators

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Undergrad Why does (100) and (010) have the shortest reciprocal lattic

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Graduate In bcc lattice why XRD 100 peak is not observed ?

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High School Is it possible to squash an atom?

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High School Superconductivity & the Meissner Effect

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Graduate Understanding X-ray Emission: Unraveling the Confusion

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Graduate Are green lasers Left Circularly Polarized Light?

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Undergrad Solid State NMR and X-ray Crystallography resources

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High School Can Elements Die? Nuclear Fusion & Element Creation

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Undergrad Is a One-Time Use Pulse Laser Possible?

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Undergrad Who can identify a Bravais Lattice?

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High School Positions of atoms at super cold temp

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Undergrad Cooper-Pair Density Near A Conductor's surface

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Undergrad Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution Alpha and Beta

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High School What is a Primitive Cell in Material Science?

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Graduate Predicting Fermi Surface from Chemical Formula

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Undergrad Thermal expansion in harmonic potential

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High School Heat generated due to electron bombardment

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Undergrad Electrons in ZrTe5 Gain Mass Under High Magnetic Field, Study Finds

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Undergrad PN Junction Diode: Diffusion vs. Drift Current

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Graduate Can the Vortices in a Superfluid Form a Triangular Lattice?

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Graduate Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons: Metallicity Explained

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Undergrad Understanding Hund's Second Rule: What is a Singlet or Triplet?

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Undergrad Helium Ion collision with diamond wafer

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Graduate Carrier concentration temperature dependence; semiconductors

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High School HNO2 Resonance: Liquid Phase Impact?

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Undergrad K dot p method with SO interaction

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Undergrad Fracture and material strength

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Undergrad Why is tetrahedral the most stable?

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Undergrad Why do black bodies get hotter than white bodies in the sun?

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Graduate Limiting factors in Diamond Anvil Cells

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Undergrad Density of states at Fermi level for metal vs semiconductor

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Graduate Silver RF magnetron sputtering targets

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Undergrad The Mystery of the Fermi Surface & Semiconductors

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Undergrad Monoclinic Cell Rotation for Surface Calculations

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Undergrad S & P Bands Explained: Bloch's Theory of Formation

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Undergrad Space Group Duplicates: Is it Possible for Monoatomic Crystals?

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Graduate Why does a higher absorption coefficient result in a smaller emissivity value?

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High School Understanding Energy Bands in Solids: Conduction, Insulators, and Semiconductors

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Graduate Four Probe Method: Why 0-200mV & 0.20mA?

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Graduate Curie's Symmetry Principle and Heterogeneous Thermodynamic Systems

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Graduate Gaussian 09 Output file_DFT Calcuation

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Graduate Is Graphene a Two-Dimensional Weyl Semimetal with Spin Degenerate Dirac Bands?

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High School How Easy To Pull Two Atoms Apart?

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Undergrad Just to check Schrodinger equation with 2 electrons

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High School Atom Nucleus: Orbital Path & Pattern Explained

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Graduate Barabasi-Albert Algorithm for Generating Scale-Free Graphs

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Undergrad Piezoelectric crystal energy restoration

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High School Likely replacement of semiconductors

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Graduate About band structure calculation

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Undergrad Why is the valence band maxima at k = 0?

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Undergrad Number of electrons in conduction band

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Undergrad Planck formula and density of photons

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Graduate Understanding Function Generator Noise for Calibrating Noise Measurements

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Undergrad Does ARPES Only Show Fermi Surface of a Structure?

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Undergrad What Are the Key Uses and Historical Significance of E-k Diagrams?

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Graduate The unit of atom scattering factor

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High School How were the first atoms created?

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Undergrad Spectrum of emission in photoluminescence

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Undergrad Calculating Cooper Pair Density in Niobium/YBCO

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High School Binding energy of the electron in Hydrogen atom.

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Undergrad (old?) spectroscopy analysis notation

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Undergrad CMA (Cylindrical Mirror Analyzer)

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Graduate Iron ionisation energy value query

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Graduate Young's modulus graphene nanoribbons

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Undergrad Does substrate choice impact resistivity in VO2 thin films?

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Undergrad Two Ferromagnets with Opposite Electron Spins

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Undergrad Why Is Crystal-Field Splitting Different for f-Orbitals Compared to d-Orbitals?

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Graduate Plotting Silicene Band Structure in Γ→M→K→Γ Path using Correct Equation

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Graduate Basic questions on crystal lattice: k-vectors and Brillouin

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Graduate Transition dipole moment - polarized absorption

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Undergrad Volume in K space occupied per allowed state

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Undergrad Why Don't CO2 Lasers Operate at 2400cm^-1?

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Undergrad What breaks time reversal symmetry in ferromagnets

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Undergrad Consistency of atomic magnetic dipole spatial orientation wi

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Graduate Regarding Drude theory and AC conductivity of metal

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Undergrad What is the Plasmon Wave Size?

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Undergrad Can Cooper Pairs in Superconductors Interact Over Long Distances?

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Undergrad Mass Spectrum Analysis: Identifying Mass & Charge

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Undergrad Pound-Drever-Hall frequency stabilisation technique

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Undergrad Structural differences between W, WC, and W2C?

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High School Can Cooper Pairs Have Different Orientations in a Superconductor?

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Undergrad Band structure and valence electrons

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High School Deriving Electron Wave Function from Hole Wave Function

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Undergrad How Is the Ion Lattice Approximation Justified in Electron Dynamics?

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Undergrad PN Junction Current: Understanding Dependence on Parameters

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Undergrad How Do Charge-less Molecules Like Methane Absorb Light?

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Undergrad Electron motion in the plum pudding model

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