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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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Undergrad Partition Function: 2 Approaches & Questions Answered
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Undergrad Fermi sphere and density of states
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Graduate Relation between IR radiation and warming in metals
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Graduate Can we make a circular polarization laser directly?
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Undergrad Does the ionic background of a crystal affect the index?
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Undergrad Double heterostructure junction in forward and zero bias
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Undergrad Are there energy bands for alloys?
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Undergrad Reflectance of metals at low frequencies
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Undergrad Non-zero current from a completely filled band
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Law of Mass Action: Intrinsic & Extrinsic Semiconductors
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High School Does ionization change velocity of ion?
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Undergrad Why superconductors have zero resistance
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Undergrad Difference between solid-state, semiconductor and gas lasers
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Graduate Incandescence and electronic excitation
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Undergrad Will ethanol destroy double layered graphene?
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High School Atomic Structure: Why Don't Protons Repel Each Other?
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Undergrad Transmittance and Absorbtion of light
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Graduate About Feshbach Molecules in ultracold molecules
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Graduate Emission spectra of a hot body vs. atomic emission spectra
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Undergrad How is a top gate used to change electron density?
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Undergrad About standing waves and reasonance
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Undergrad Highest Order Diffraction Ring
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High School Finite difference problem
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Graduate Masters Thesis Topics and Literature
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Undergrad Understanding the Derivation of Effective Mass Approximation in Semiconductors
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Graduate Why Energy of 4s is higher than 3d?
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Undergrad Hyperpolarizability and second order susceptibility
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High School Why is the noble gas configuration inert?
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Graduate M-edges in TR-XAFS in Lanthanides
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Undergrad Boltzmann distribution for spin-1/2 dipole: high T limit
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Graduate How to find vibrational frequency for specific bond? (DFT)
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Graduate Numerical solution to SE - variational method, many electrons
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Variable grid mesh in Numerov's method (Fortran)
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Undergrad Why does the magnetisation orient itself in the -y direction
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High School Can heating/cooling a material effect absorption, and transmission
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Undergrad Why does high surface energy of the solid have more wetting?
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Graduate What is the role of the sp-band in bandstructures and density-of-states?
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Graduate How can I tell Gaussian to read coordinates as Cartesian?
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Graduate Hyperfine structure transition of Cs-133: calculation?
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Graduate Acoustic and optical branches in phonons dispersion curves
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Undergrad Difference between Zero-Field Cooling and Field Cooling
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Undergrad Emission spectroscopy of an acetylene flame
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Undergrad What is the theoretical basis for Kramer's Law?
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Undergrad Distinguishing Blackbody and Atomic Spectra of the Sun
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Undergrad Bloch's theorem infinite system?
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Graduate Magnetocaloric effect and electron energy levels
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Graduate Computing the resistivity due to electron collision with 1BZ
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Undergrad Matter cutting by destabilising of atoms bonding
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Undergrad Volume of velocity-space in Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
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Undergrad Boltzmann distribution: isothermal atmosphere error?
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Undergrad Bandgap Energy and refractive index
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Undergrad Do all solids have a crystalline organized structure?
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Undergrad Diffusion of carriers in a double heterostructure
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Undergrad What is the Bremsstrahlung Spectrum function?
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Undergrad Spectra Units: cm^(-1)? | KQ6UP
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Undergrad Built-in potential in pn junction
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Undergrad Pump Probe Spectroscopy: Introduction to a Powerful Technique
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Undergrad Evaluating Scattering Integral
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Graduate Does a type I superconductor have to be single crystal?
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Undergrad Resonant Frequency of an Atom in an Atomic Clock
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Undergrad Pn junction to reach thermal equilibrium
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The Fascinating World of Bravais Lattices
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Undergrad Bond length of a hydrogen bond
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Undergrad What factors influence the crystal structure of metals?
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Graduate Can't crystal of simple lattice be antiferromagnetic?
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Undergrad Carrier Concentration in a Semiconductor
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Undergrad Energy levels in atoms & speed of interaction
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Undergrad What octahedral site is preferred by carbon?
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Graduate A question about how to start ab initio simulations
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Graduate Difference between an optical and an acoustic phonon
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Graduate Deriving DOS: Solve the Mystery of the 2x Factor!
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Undergrad Photoluminescence Excitation (PLE) vs PL spectroscopy
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Undergrad What is the volime of a k-state?
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Undergrad Calculation of the absorption coefficient for GaAs
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Undergrad Localized and delocalized states, meaning? in Organics
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Josephson Junction: Perpetual Motion System?
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Graduate Break points in band structure
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Undergrad Quasi Fermi level and intrinsic Fermi energy
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Undergrad What does total number of atomic sites mean ?
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Undergrad Velocity saturation and mobility in metals and semiconductor
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Graduate Dielectric loss of SiO2 layers.
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Undergrad Finding the vibrational partition function of a diatomic molecule
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Undergrad A diamagnet inside a magnetized hollow cylinder
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Undergrad Diamagnetism vs. paramagnetism in solid state
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Graduate Understanding the Meaning of Splitting in Two-Level Systems
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Undergrad Kinetic energy with effective mass
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Graduate HF pulsed UV light effect on metal alloy
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High School What is the self absorption parameter
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Undergrad Basic band theory question, free electron model
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Undergrad Origin of 12th power dependency of Pauli repulsion?
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Undergrad Why is the work function measured from the Fermi level?
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Graduate About X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
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Undergrad Position of Fermi Energy for Semi-Conductors
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Graduate Plank Radiation Spectrum Liquids Wavelength VS Temp
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Undergrad Query about statistical ensemble and Liouville's Theorem
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Undergrad Effective mass position dependent
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