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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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Undergrad Partition Function: 2 Approaches & Questions Answered
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Graduate Kohn-Sham vs Gell-Mann & Low correspondence
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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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Graduate Law of Mass Action: Intrinsic & Extrinsic Semiconductors
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