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Undergrad How can the radiation of gases be detected?

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Graduate Using Reciprocal to Determine Miller Indices

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Graduate What are the latest metallic superconductors discovered in the past decade?

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Graduate A question on weight function from Ashcroft and Mermin book

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Graduate Bulk Modulus and its derivative in a fcc lattice

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Graduate Question about band gaps in 2D

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Undergrad What does it mean for energy absorbed and released for atom?

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Have you read any other books about crystallography?

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Graduate Coupling to an electric field in a tight binding model

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Undergrad What Are the Best Physics Books on Instrumental Spectroscopy?

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Undergrad Spectrum of singly ionised helium

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Graduate How's diffraction pattern modied by phonon perturbation?

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Graduate Derivation of width of depletion layer in the pn-junction

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Graduate What distinguishes the 32 crystallographic point groups?

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High School Electrons & Protons: Why Revolve Around Nucleus?

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Graduate Suscept. of a Diamagnet (eqn): what are these variables?

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Graduate Lattice wave dispersion relation

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Undergrad What Does Bilinear Response Mean in Mathematical Terms?

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Graduate Why is Chromium Described as an Acceptor in TiO2?

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Graduate Brittleness and material behaviours

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Graduate Fermi energy in metals approximately doubling

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Graduate How to analyze band structure and the density of states?

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Graduate How Do Electron Energy Levels Form in Liquids Like H2O?

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Graduate Why is graphene placed in a cryostat in research?

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High School Superconductor science fair project?

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Graduate Spin-Charge separation seem to have been experimented

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Graduate Is there any explanation of Josephson effect based on Schrodinger equation?

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Graduate What can be found in the MT curves of superconductors?

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Graduate Is There a Scientific Explanation for the Controversial Concept of Cold Fusion?

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Graduate Broadening of emission peak - "red/blue spike"

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Graduate Difference between Hubbard and tJ model

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Graduate What does a magnetic moment of an atom mean?

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Graduate How can two atomic orbitals with the same n value be orthogonal?

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Graduate What is the role of silicon oxide in graphene visibility experiments?

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Graduate Tight binding s-orbital for 2D binary compound

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Graduate Propelling force of Atomic Blast?

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Graduate Problem with Curie's temperature

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Undergrad How do vibrations in a solution affect other particles?

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Graduate Bismuth Telluride Bandstructure

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Graduate What is the momentum of a hole in a semiconductor?

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Graduate DMRG. Density matrix renormalization group theory

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Graduate Band structures with non-primitive cells

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Graduate Questions/problems for Solid State Physics I

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Graduate <U|V> overlap integral of two many-electron determinant wave functions

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Graduate Significance of band gap in k-space

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Graduate Meaning of total ground state energy in periodic DFT calculations

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Graduate Depletion region in n-type ohmic contact

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Graduate Band bending versus band sloping

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Graduate Quasi-particles: how typical are they?

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Graduate Interpret Wyckoff Positions: Crystal Class Coordinates

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Graduate Measure the out-of-plane k of suspended thin film

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Graduate Understanding Point Groups in Crystals: Definition and Key Concepts

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Graduate Energy bands in plastic materials

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Graduate Formula for the vibration rate of an atom?

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Undergrad Transition Metals Lattice Constants - Reference Guide

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Graduate Paschen notation in atomic spectroscopy

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Graduate How to Calculate Excited Molecules in O2 Gas Using Spectroscopy | Mark's Guide

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Graduate Selection Rules and Light with Orbital Angular Momentum

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Graduate Autocorrelation function MC simulation

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Undergrad Purpose of substrate in semiconductor lasers

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Undergrad What are Transverse/longitudinal effects in lasers?

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Graduate Can we explain shielding effect using electric field ?

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Graduate What will higher resolution microscopes see?

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High School N-P-N Transistor in Saturation Mode

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Graduate Metal insulator transition and percolation

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Graduate Relative permittivity of a semiconductor material

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Undergrad How to calculate solar cell efficiency with data in dark?

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Graduate Electrical current in metals | energy bands

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Graduate Are Transfer and Scattering Matrices Useful Without Knowledge of H?

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Graduate Choosing appropriate length scale in condensed matter

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Graduate Crystal structures of violet phosphorus and red phosphorus

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Undergrad Metal Superconductors and Negative Temperature

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Graduate Phonon Quasimomentum: Why & How?

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Undergrad Thin Film Thickness: Estimating Using Transmittance & Reflectance

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Russian Article Help: O A Ovanov, L V Solina & V A Demshina '73

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Undergrad Are Triple Points and Critical Points Theoretical or Observable in Real Life?

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Graduate Why does the velocity of 2D plasmon diverge at small q?

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High School What is the cause of an atom's number of protons

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Graduate Why is the DOS from Wang-Landau's algoritm non-flat?

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High School Strange Miller Index Notation [00.1]

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Graduate Calculating Potential Energy of Iron Slab in Ferro/Anti-Ferro Magnetic States

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Undergrad Is it possible to make a semiconductor at home?

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Graduate What is a conductive material which contains extra "holes"?

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High School Every known element has a unique atom?

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Undergrad How can powder resistivity be measured with 4-point probe?

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Undergrad Should diatomic gas be regarded as ideal gas?

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Undergrad How to tell if its a metal or a semiconductor

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Undergrad How should doped silicon wafers be handled?

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Graduate Quick question about liquid crystals

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Graduate Why is CNT considered a 1D structure despite having movement in two dimensions?

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Graduate Unravelling the Mystery of Rare Gases and Binding Energy

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Undergrad Do natural diamonds form from carbon-vapour or liquid-carbon

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High School Understanding Data Storage in SSD: Comparing to HDD and the Role of Atoms

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Undergrad What is the Mass of Ionized Hydrogen in Stars and How Does it Affect Pressure?

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Graduate How Does Conductivity Increase in N-Type Semiconductors?

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Graduate Hydrogen - Halpha cross section

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Graduate Spin-orbit Interaction & Degenerate Perturbation Theory

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Graduate Heat Capacity of Nanoparticles - Experimental Determination

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Graduate Lattice constant from first principles

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Graduate Phonon contribution to specific heat of solids

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