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Undergrad What is the value of 1 monolayer in nanometers?
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Undergrad Why Does Electron Affinity Have Different Values and Conventions?
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Undergrad Soft condense matter & quantum mechanics
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Undergrad Isn't vacuum the best insulator?
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Undergrad Can electrons deposit on a dielectric?
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Undergrad How to calculate or where to get atomic spectral data.
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Undergrad Understanding Sublimation: Principle and Process Explained
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Undergrad A Simple Question about Diffusion and ion speed
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Undergrad Question about Rydberg equation and molecular orbital
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Undergrad Origin of Characteristic X Rays: How Do Atoms Produce Them?
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Undergrad How to Plot Pseudopotentials from Different Sources?
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Undergrad Why Do Electrons Revolve Around the Nucleus Instead of Sticking to Protons?
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Undergrad Color of Objects: Questions Answered by ledamage
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Undergrad How Strong is the Interaction Between Carbon Atoms and Aluminum Oxide?
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Undergrad Fermi level rise up with raisng up the temperature
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Undergrad Pn Junction Diode: Electrons, Holes, and Immobile Ions
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Undergrad Can Scientists Really Manipulate Matter to Create Food?
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Undergrad Clueless about Reciprocal Lattice
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Undergrad Help Jessica Identify XRD Pattern
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Undergrad How Is Barrier Height Calculated in Physics?
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Undergrad Can Electric Fields Manipulate Water Molecules?
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Undergrad What is the difference between mass specs?
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Undergrad Is there any way to find the distance between a nucleus and its electrons?
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Undergrad How Laser Cooling works - Explained
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Undergrad The force, which attracts e to nucleus
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Undergrad Relation between conductivity and permittivity
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Undergrad Surface Plasmon Explained - Get the Answers!
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Undergrad How a Good Conductor is always a good Conductor
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Undergrad Why each GPS satellite holds four atomic clocks?
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Undergrad Mono and polycristallin material
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Undergrad What's the physical meaning of true shear strain and simple shear strain
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Undergrad Miller Index Problem - Is it (102) or (112)?
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Undergrad Questions about Light: Will Cold Chamber Affect Beam?
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Undergrad How to get spectra from a metal?
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Undergrad Research which involves some semiconductors
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Undergrad Ionization energy for He gas tubes
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Undergrad Atomic Radius: Uncovering How It's Figured Out A2 Physics
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Undergrad What is the size of water particles in gas and water phases?
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Undergrad Understanding Exchange Bias: An Introduction for Beginners
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Undergrad Van der Waals radius not applicable to most elements?
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Undergrad Ionizing particles (alpha & beta)
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Undergrad Are atoms 'perpetual machines'?
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Undergrad What Happens During the Liquid-to-Solid Transition of Water?
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Undergrad Optical Transmission through thin films.
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Undergrad Periodic table of elements is inaccurate
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Undergrad Can Electrons Travel Through Quartz?
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Undergrad Diffusion vs migration in solid state
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Undergrad Basic Structure & Behavior of The Atom Oh, and hi
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Undergrad Why do blue LEDs have a higher forward voltage than expected?
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Undergrad Why Doesn't the Electron Lose Energy in Bohr's Model of the Hydrogen Atom?
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Undergrad What's so special about Cu, Ag, and Au? fermi level? band gap?
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Undergrad Can electrostatic forces explain electron configurations?
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Undergrad Understanding Four Wave Mixing and Its Role in Nonlinear Optics
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Undergrad Ionic Conductivity in Solids: Explain, Links & Books
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Undergrad Question on Nuclear Energy: Why Does a Nuclei Weigh Less?
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Undergrad Photon Energy Level: Why Green Light Falls Greater Energy Levels
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Undergrad What Causes Molecules to Repel Light Particles?
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Undergrad What is the significance of blocking temperature in magnetic materials?
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Undergrad Unraveling the Mystery of Glass Transparency: A Scientific Explanation
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Undergrad What is a 'hole' in the context of solid state?
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Undergrad Superconductivity: Zero Resistance & Its Effects
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Undergrad Some questions about ion trap?
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Undergrad How can we explaine the adhesion force?
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Undergrad Temperature and Electrical Potential
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Undergrad Is Full Ionization Necessary for Nuclear Fusion?
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Undergrad Calculating c/a ratio for h.c.p
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Undergrad What Are Beginner-Friendly Resources on the Lorentz Oscillator Model?
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Undergrad Understanding Line Spectra: Evidence of Atomic Energy Levels
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Undergrad Calc Lattice Constant of Solid Manganese
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Undergrad Understanding Holes in Semiconductors: Positive or Negative Charge?
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Undergrad Constants in Lenard Jones Potential
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Undergrad Zero Resistance? Non-Physicist Asks About Superconductivity
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Undergrad Where to find the surface free energy value?
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Undergrad Calculating Density of SiO2 in the Periodic Table
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Undergrad Factors Determining Zeeman Splitting in Solid State Physics
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Undergrad Optimizing Material Strength: Fact or Fiction?
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Undergrad Why are electron and hole currents zero at thermal equilibrium?
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Undergrad Molecular Spectra: Solving Astronomy Problems
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Undergrad What Are the Bandgap Values for GaAs and Si?
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Undergrad How to calculate 2D packing fractions?
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Undergrad Do conductors have electron holes?
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Undergrad Solid state lasers (LEDs), gas lasers, and liquid lasers(?)
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Undergrad Electron Configuration After Photoelectric Effect
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Undergrad Understanding the Beer-Lambert Law: Questions on Absorbance and Concentration
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Undergrad Diffusion Theory: Exploring Particle Motion
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Undergrad Relative Atomic Mass 1u: Mass of Carbon-12 Atom & Oxygen-16 Atom
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Undergrad Normal Mode Analysis: Basics & Applications
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Undergrad Crystal Lattice/crystaline structure
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Undergrad Discover the Interplanar Spacing of NaCl and KCl Crystals | Expert Insights
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Undergrad An atomic explosion - more energy out than in?
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Undergrad Energy Band in Solids: What Is the Essential Phenomenon?
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Undergrad Solve QuickField 3D Sphere & Ring Problems
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Undergrad I want to fabricate a pn junction
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Undergrad Which Groups in the Periodic Table Form Compound Semiconductors?
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Undergrad What does band gap bowing means?
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Undergrad X-ray process and electrons involved
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Undergrad Elliptic trajectories of the electron
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Undergrad Does the emission line of an ionized atom depend on the number of electrons?
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Undergrad What the heck is a Potential Well?
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Undergrad Solving the Properties of Iron Ions Fe2+ and Fe3+
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