Join in expert discussion on atomic and condensed matter. Methods for atoms, molecules, condensed matter. This includes the structure of the atom, its energy states, and its interactions.
Threads
Undergrad Is Wien's Law Applicable to All Materials and Conditions?
- stackprogramer
- · Replies 6 ·
Graduate Understanding Valley Quantum Number in Si and Ge Band Structures
- hokhani
- · Replies 1 ·
Graduate BEC Paper Q: Eigenvectors & Eigenvalues of Operator
- Coffee_
- · Replies 14 ·
Graduate Are there any materials where ions are the charge carriers instead of electrons?
- Salvador
- · Replies 3 ·
Graduate QM explanation of electron conduction in crystal
- zhanhai
- · Replies 3 ·
Graduate Phonon dispersion Points/Modes question
- Jeff_2016
- · Replies 4 ·
Undergrad Dispersion Energy in Semi Conductors: What Is It?
- sounouhid
- · Replies 2 ·
Graduate Is band structure in semiconductors symmetrical with respect to k?
- hokhani
- · Replies 12 ·
Undergrad Donor Impurities and the Forbidden region
- BOAS
- · Replies 4 ·
Graduate Solid State Question: A Confusing Integral in Ashcroft
- kq6up
- · Replies 2 ·
Graduate Proposed Rearrangement of Periodic Table
- Herman Trivilino
- · Replies 8 ·
Undergrad How Do Atoms Generate Flames in Combustion?
- taregg
- · Replies 5 ·
Graduate Ionize hydrogen gas with 405 nm laser?
- Sven Andersson
- · Replies 1 ·
Graduate Calculation of alpha particles from 226-Ra decay
- geojon
- · Replies 3 ·
Graduate Finite difference Schrodinger equation
- aaaa202
- · Replies 4 ·
High School Can Atom Sizes Be Manipulated?
- Kev.
- · Replies 18 ·
Graduate Does the Kubo Formula Calculate Conductivity for Antennas or Photodetectors?
- Albe5588
- · Replies 2 ·
Graduate How Does Dielectric Confinement Affect Semiconductor Properties?
- pangru
- · Replies 1 ·
Undergrad Unit conversion - stress-wave propagation speed
- omidd
- · Replies 3 ·
Undergrad Overpowering my laser makes it dimmer, why?
- iScience
- · Replies 2 ·
Graduate Momentum in two different k-points
- hokhani
- · Replies 5 ·
Graduate Meaning of "quasi-two-dimensional structure" of cuperates
- zhanhai
- · Replies 2 ·
Undergrad Holes as positive charge carriers in semiconductors
- fog37
- · Replies 2 ·
Graduate Light and Heat Generation of Elements
- Legolaz
- · Replies 5 ·
Graduate Underdoped Cuprates: Meaning & Explanation
- pangru
- · Replies 2 ·
Graduate Self-energy for two correlators
- gonadas91
- · Replies 1 ·
Graduate Bravais lattices in 2 dimensions (and 3 dimensions)
- loginorsinup
- · Replies 3 ·
Undergrad What material did Lexus use for their hoverboard's superconductor?
- mklaben15
- · Replies 1 ·
Undergrad Are repulsive Van der Waals forces as common as attractive ones?
- 24forChromium
- · Replies 1 ·
Graduate How Does Continuous Lasing Action Work in Solid State Lasers Like Nd:YAG?
- Rahul Manavalan
- · Replies 7 ·
Undergrad What happens if an atom's electron configuration remains unstable?
- Metals
- · Replies 10 ·
Graduate Graphene Hamiltonian: Eq.(1) in PRB 81, 205444
- hokhani
- · Replies 1 ·
Graduate Continuity vacuum level at interface
- chimay
- · Replies 11 ·
Graduate Calculation of absorption coefficients of gases at moderate temperatures
- a_potato
- · Replies 2 ·
Graduate What is the Fermi level in semiconductors?
- aaaa202
- · Replies 12 ·
Graduate Phonons and classical non-locality?
- Jimster41
- · Replies 2 ·
Graduate Phonon frequency spectrum distribution
- sirwan
- · Replies 5 ·
Graduate Ferromagnetic Heisenberg Model
- kkk777
- · Replies 3 ·
Graduate Electron affinity, work function, band gap
- aaaa202
- · Replies 3 ·
Graduate Magnetic Monopoles: Investigating Spin-Ice Evidence
- stedwards
- · Replies 3 ·
Graduate Is it possible to shift the fermi level?
- Anoop MD
- · Replies 5 ·
Undergrad Why is the electric field zero outside of depletion region?
- pyctz
- · Replies 24 ·
Undergrad Where does the energy in LED come from?
- jaydnul
- · Replies 3 ·
Graduate Exploring the Role of Z2 Invariant and Edge States in Topological Insulators
- taishizhiqiu
- · Replies 3 ·
Graduate Can a silver atom be physisorbed to its surface?
- rrg92
- · Replies 2 ·
Undergrad Does n type doping decrease or increase the bandgap?
- Sophia111
- · Replies 2 ·
Graduate Do dimensions of a piezoelectric material affect voltage?
- iScience
- · Replies 2 ·
High School MPA calculation VS MPA listed on materials
- Ed Kelly
- · Replies 4 ·
Graduate How are solids held together and what determines their stability and structure?
- JaCorn_Cob
- · Replies 8 ·
Graduate Raman Spectra: Stokes vs Anti-Stokes - Get Answers Here!
- Botttom
- · Replies 2 ·
Graduate How is the frequency unchanged in elastic wave scattering with a crystal?
- Sophia111
- · Replies 4 ·
Graduate Band decomposed charge density
- Douasing
- · Replies 4 ·
Graduate Material that changes transparency when lased from side?
- flux!
- · Replies 3 ·
Graduate What is the "unoccupied band" referring to in this paper?
- Morberticus
- · Replies 3 ·
Graduate Uncrossing of Fermi level by d-electrons of Cu, Ag, Au
- Arik Lin
- · Replies 10 ·
Graduate Calculating Atom Coordinates in Silicene: What Information is Needed?
- barana
- · Replies 1 ·
Graduate Constitutive behavior of elasto-plastic vs visco-elastic?
- PinkGeologist
- · Replies 5 ·
Graduate Building 6H-SiC, does this look right?
- Richie9384
- · Replies 2 ·
Undergrad Why energy band diagram is flat?
- persia77
- · Replies 20 ·
Graduate Phonons & Collective Oscillations: Locality Experiments
- NaOH
- · Replies 9 ·
Graduate Conduction and valence bands in semiconductors
- Benevito
- · Replies 3 ·
Graduate Examples of First-Order *Electronic* Phase Transitions?
- maverick_starstrider
- · Replies 1 ·
Undergrad Why is Graphene useful although it should be very thin?
- goodphy
- · Replies 2 ·
Graduate Calculating absorption cross sections
- ctydtgat
- · Replies 1 ·
Graduate Neutral and charged exitons (trions)
- Benevito
- · Replies 3 ·
Graduate Dielectric constant in few-layer and in bulk materials
- Benevito
- · Replies 1 ·
Graduate Why are core electrons removed from atoms on X-ray irradiation in XPS?
- madhusoodan
- · Replies 6 ·
Graduate What theories in solid state should every physicist know?
- Kurret
- · Replies 5 ·
Graduate Reciprocal of the reciprocal lattice is the original lattice
- girlinphysics
- · Replies 1 ·
Graduate Questions on Rs measurement by four point probe device
- Hanyuri
- · Replies 1 ·
Graduate Optical Pumping & Laser Wavelengths
- JG1009
- · Replies 1 ·
Graduate Find Optic Laser Material That Responds to Perpendicular & Parallel Light
- flux!
- · Replies 2 ·
Graduate Solid electron wavefunction localization vs delocalization
- dzyaloshinskii
- · Replies 1 ·
High School Atomic Structure: Does an Atom Have Matter and Charge?
- Ankhen
- · Replies 7 ·
Graduate Diffusion, concentration profile
- aaaa202
- · Replies 1 ·
Graduate How to write electron hole Hamiltonian into quasi-boson?
- PRB147
- · Replies 1 ·
Graduate How to find reciprocal lattice vectors
- girlinphysics
- · Replies 2 ·
Undergrad Are Di-Atomic Molecules spherical?
- Dvorak
- · Replies 5 ·
Graduate Gibbs and Helmholtz energies of a superconductor
- Botttom
- · Replies 7 ·
Graduate Help: What is Band-Edge and Near-Band-Edge Emission?
- maxxlr8
- · Replies 1 ·
Graduate What Causes the Forbidden Gap in Semiconductors?
- Arthur202
- · Replies 4 ·
Graduate Topological phase and spontaneous symmetry breaking coexist?
- SoumiGhosh
- · Replies 1 ·
Graduate Quantum Cascade Lasers: Intersubband Transitions
- Goodver
- · Replies 3 ·
Graduate How can I solve the problem with Fourier transforms in critical phenomena?
- enrikofermi
- · Replies 9 ·
Graduate Emergent Qualities Mapped to Atomic Properties
- awcrowe
- · Replies 3 ·
Undergrad Ionization and electron affinity
- harman90
- · Replies 11 ·
Graduate How "plastic" do you think heated rocks become?
- PinkGeologist
- · Replies 3 ·
Graduate Raman Shifts of Metals for PhD Students
- nicolas khoury
- · Replies 1 ·
Graduate Optical Stimulated Luminescence
- ctydtgat
- · Replies 2 ·
Graduate A question about strain in graphene
- barana
- · Replies 2 ·
Graduate Understanding the Peierls-Nabarro Barrier: Explanation and References
- LagrangeEuler
- · Replies 1 ·
Graduate Density of States of a metal at Fermi level
- Pedro Roman
- · Replies 6 ·
Graduate Thermionics disobeying laws of thermodynamics
- Alex_645
- · Replies 1 ·
Graduate What is a hardening function? What does it represent?
- PinkGeologist
- · Replies 2 ·
Graduate Thermal motion of graphite atoms
- petra_egg
- · Replies 1 ·
High School Question about three states of matter
- Smartgeek
- · Replies 11 ·
Graduate Does a Completed Electron Orbital Differ?
- Ryan Reed
- · Replies 4 ·
Undergrad Metals: Physicochemical Properties for Catalytic Conversions
- fysik
- · Replies 3 ·
Graduate Current and Quantum Hall Effect
- Benevito
- · Replies 1 ·
Undergrad Can Computer Simulations Revolutionize Material Design?
- fysik
- · Replies 3 ·