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Graduate Why Does Feynman Use a Single Electron Charge in Dipole Calculations?

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Graduate Why Cannot I Factorize the Partition Function?

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Graduate Degrees of freedom of diatomic gas

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Graduate Tight binding dispersion for graphene

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Graduate How does annealing improves the ohmic contact?

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Graduate Electrons in Metal: Wave-Particle Duality

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High School The structure of carbon graphite

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Graduate Understanding FWHM in XRD Analysis of Powder Patterns

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Graduate Measurement of Hydrogen 1s 4s transition frequency

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Graduate What is the meaning of a fully occupied state in the Fermi-Dirac distribution?

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Undergrad Field effect transistors question

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Undergrad Is this a eureka moment? .how do we know atoms exist?

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Graduate Dispersion relation for the free electron model

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Graduate Which plane of GaN gives an image of dots placed hexagonally

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Graduate Comparing the Energy Levels of Diatomic Molecules

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Graduate Transition dipole moment of diatomic molecules

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Graduate Question from Ashcroft/Mermin: electronic density eqn

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Graduate Precision measurements of atomic mass.

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Graduate Interband transition no photon

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Graduate What Is Gain Narrowing in Lasers?

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Graduate What is the physical meaning of the Thomas-Fermi vector?

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Graduate Fermi Surface squashed by potentials

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Graduate Exponentially damped dipole - line broadening

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Graduate Density of states, photonic crystal

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Graduate Problem about electronic structure

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Graduate What do you mean by Cooper pair in real space and k space?

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Graduate Snake instability and vortex pair

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Graduate Information about absorption cross section

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Graduate Fermi Level and density of states

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Graduate Can QED solve all solid state problems?

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Graduate Charge radius of a proton as a function of its mass

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Graduate How to dope a chemical compound?

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Graduate Surface Barrier in Type 2 Superconductors

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Graduate Understanding Real-World Emission Spectra: Are Solids Similar to Blackbodies?

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Undergrad How to find atomicity of solid elements as can't apply the gas law

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High School Superconductivity Research ideas

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Graduate Why do insulators appear transparent?

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Graduate Band Structure of a solid is not related to the size/doping?

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Undergrad Why removal of other electrons cause binding energy increase

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Graduate What is the biggest challenge to improve white LEDs?

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Graduate Superposition of energy levels

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Where can i get some semiconductor wire?

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Undergrad Why is silver the best conductor?

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Undergrad Bragg's Law Experiment: Questions and Answers

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Undergrad Ohmic vs Rectifying Contact: N+ & N-Type Semiconductors

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Undergrad Conductor Behavior at Absolute 0 Temperature

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Graduate Solving Coulomb Barrier: Calculating Energy w/e2 Units

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Graduate Calculation of total ionization cross section

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Undergrad Stokes Shift in Hydrogen Spectrum ?

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Graduate Explaining Band theory and Momentum Space to laymen?

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Undergrad Tungsten Permittivity: Properties & Values

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Undergrad Atoms and energy levels question

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Undergrad Importance of knowing the Curie temperature?

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Undergrad Why do resistivity and conductivity change with temperature?

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High School Green Laser Question: Explaining the Double Pumping Method

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Graduate Solving My Confusion: States in Energy Band

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Graduate Polarization and energy level transitions

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Undergrad What is the best referece book to study atomic structure?

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Undergrad Semiconductor Energy Gap: Silicon Explained

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High School Does the Water during sonoluminescence heat up?

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Undergrad Future of Moore's Law, Physics, and Nano Devices

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Graduate Fermi Energy's plausible, but why define Fermi Temperature?

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Graduate Fermi Level Concept: Probability & Forbidden Gap

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Graduate Solving Coupled ODEs with 4th Order Runge-Kutta Method

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Graduate Why is the effective mass of electron different for metals

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Graduate Nearly free electron model - band gap

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Graduate How to Determine the Basis Atom Positions in Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10 for XRD Simulation?

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Graduate Mobility of 2D material, sigma=N*e*mu with N surface density

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Graduate Phonon Energy and Density of States

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Graduate Derivation of the Boltzmann distribution (Dr. David Tong)

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Graduate Why is black phosphorus semiconductor with direct bandgap?

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Graduate Molecular Orbital & Normal Modes

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Graduate Origin of current phase relation in Josepshon junction.

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Graduate Bond energy - (Force/ potential E vs interatomic separation)

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Graduate Simple (?) question regarding the Fermi Surface

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Graduate Is there a quantum mechanics theory for dynamics in QW planar VCSELs?

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Graduate Deviation of a gas from ideal gas behaviour

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Graduate What Causes Flat Dispersion of Charge Excitations in Solids?

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Graduate Understanding molecular absorption of light (UV-Vis spectroscopy)

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Graduate Gibbs Free Energy in Superconductors

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Graduate Determine the intensities of GaAs crystal planes

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Undergrad Why do the free electrons in the N-type want to diffuse?

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Graduate Calculation of Intensity of of AX crystals

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Graduate Determine Crystal structure of non-cubic crystal in XRD plot

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Graduate Differences between Boltzmann and Fermi-Dirac distributions

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Graduate Why Is the Length of the Reciprocal Lattice Vector Equal to 2π/d_hkl?

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Graduate Excited state line width and thermodynamics

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Graduate What are the physical implications of phonon softening?

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Graduate Can scotch tape method get film size larger than particles?

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Graduate Molecular Hydrogen absorption spectrum

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Graduate Finite square well potential numerical solution

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Graduate Expanding the Hamiltonian around a point of symmetry

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Graduate The Orbital and Spin Momenta of Light

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Graduate Analyzing GaAs Quantum Wells Emission Spectrum

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Undergrad Determine type of semiconductor from IV measurements of Schottky

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Graduate Is there any refined experimental result on flux quantum?

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Graduate Rules in determining family of planes in Hexagonal

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Undergrad How Do Orbital Interactions and Sigma Bonds Work in Methane?

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Graduate How is the Van der Waals interaction potential calculated?

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Graduate Understanding Band Theory: The Difference Between Conductors and Insulators

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