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High School What are bands and the bandgap in band theory?
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Graduate The Case of Electronic structure of Liquid Metals
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Undergrad Calculating Bandgaps Experimentally
- Christian0412
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Graduate NaLaF4:Er3+ up-conversion spectrum in glass an ceramics
- prehisto
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Undergrad Problem of formula Hall constant
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Graduate The temp. dependent Specific heat and expansion coefficient of Cobalt?
- poul
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Graduate Electron Diffraction, and General X-Ray (EBSD- Kikuchi lines)
- antonni
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Graduate Why isn't the frequency dependence of permittivity monotonic?
- FillBill
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Graduate Meissner effect and conservation of momentum in magnetic levitation
- JesseM
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Graduate Questions about the "weak link" of Josephson junction
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Graduate Tunneling Transmission Probability: DOS or Velocity?
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Graduate Why doesn't Graphene have a band gap?
- asheg
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Graduate Excitation to optically forbidden state
- vrinda mukund
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Undergrad How do ferromagnetic domains align in an external magnetic field?
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Graduate Can we have band gap anywhere?
- hokhani
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Graduate Schrodinger in a weak periodic potential
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Graduate Band Dispersion and Career Mobility
- arvind
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Graduate (Bravais?) lattice with one angle equal 90
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Undergrad Complete List of 230 Space Groups in CSV Format for Easy Access
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Graduate 1 dimensional crystal at rest, a nucleus emits gamma ray of energy E,
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Graduate What's a general algorithm to build a supercell from a primitive cell?
- SadScholar
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Graduate Calculating SAB overlap of two Kohn-Sham determinants
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Graduate Direction of Photo Electron Emission
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Graduate About Relaxation Time Approximation
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Undergrad Difference between X-ray Diffraction techniques and Raman spectroscopy
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Graduate Volume of Brillouin zone is the same as Fourier primitive parallelepip
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Graduate Derivation of LLG equation in polar coordinates
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Graduate Van der Waals Forces Between Particle and Surface
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Undergrad Do emission spectrum lines correspond to single atomic orbital transitions?
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Graduate [PChem] Maxwell-Boltzmann Molecule Mean Speed
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Graduate Mössbauer effect at low T versus high T, making phonons.
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Undergrad Why is there no current in a reversed biased diode?
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Graduate Delocalized holes and trapped holes (polarons)
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Graduate Relationship between phonon and plasmon
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Undergrad Semiconductor Notation: P-Type, N-Type Band Gap Materials
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Graduate X-ray Photoelectron Spin-orbit Splitting
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Graduate Where are the high symmetry points on a graphene band structure?
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Undergrad Representing Continuous Space in a Computer: Managing Lattices and Accuracy
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Graduate Band structure of cobalt adsorbed graphene
- saroj
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Graduate Determination of atomic bases in unit cell using Wien2k
- hokhani
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Undergrad Can Brownian Motion Suspend Larger Particles in a Denser Fluid?
- Warpspeed13
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Graduate Understanding Cell Volume: Why It's Independent of Choice
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High School What causes texture on surfaces?
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Graduate Displacement energy of atom in a liquid (for ion implantation)
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Graduate Is Light Traveling Faster Than c in Materials with Index of Refraction Below 1?
- Robert_G
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High School How does light behave when passing through glass or water?
- smk
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High School Helium Atomic Structure: Ionization Speed Compared to Air
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Graduate How does x-ray diffraction from different Bragg planes add up?
- SadScholar
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Graduate P-N junction voltage under polarization
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Graduate Photon emission during x-Ray ionization process
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Graduate Integration of 6-12 Lennard Jones Potential to obtain the 3-9 one.
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Graduate Does a photon that has been absorbed still exist?
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Graduate Temperature dependence of the light yield in scintillators
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Undergrad What is the Lennard-Jones potential equation?
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Graduate What Determines the Fermi Level of Semiconductors?
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Undergrad Interaction of matter and radiation
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Graduate Must photons be absorbed or emitted one by one?
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Graduate XPS for different oxidation states
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Graduate Why Electrons Don't Radiate in h/2π Orbits
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Graduate Hydrogen partition function and degeneracy
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Undergrad Curie temperature, reversible process
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Graduate Total energy of N+1 electron system compared to N
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Graduate Random nature of multiple scattering
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Graduate Why do DFT papers include density of states plots?
- assed
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Graduate State of the art on H line spectra?
- neilparker62
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Undergrad What Is the Most Current Model in Solid State Physics?
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Undergrad How Can Empty Space Comprise Most of Our Mass?
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Graduate Identifying circular structures on pyrex after xenon excimer exposure
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Graduate Determine density of states from an XPS spectrum
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Graduate High symmetry directions in a two-dimensional oblique crystal
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Undergrad Are subatomic particles spherical?
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Graduate Complete and incomplete mode locking. Charge density waves.
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Undergrad Internal Energy Change: Confusion Cleared Up
- tyneoh
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Graduate What models can use the transfer matrix method?
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Undergrad Verifying my understanding of solar cells and semiconductors
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Undergrad A photon absorption/emission by an atom
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High School Titanium Ion Charge: +2 - Explanation?
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Graduate 2D Density of States Energy Independent
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Graduate Want to know more about Conductors
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Identifying a 1970s atomic science history book with comic strips
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Graduate Understanding Schottky Barrier Height: Why the Energy Bands?
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Graduate Silicon in an External E-Field
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Graduate Silicon carbide polytypes (large unit cells)
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Undergrad Kinetic energy compared to energy making up mass
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Graduate Cooper Pairs: Definition and Formation Process
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Graduate Energy of atomic orbitals in multielectron system
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Graduate What are the different mechanisms that cause plasma emission?
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Graduate What is the energy gap of Titanium Nitride (TiN) and is it indirect or direct?
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Graduate Doping Defects in Semiconductors?
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Graduate How BEC being described by the single-particle density matrix?
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Graduate How Does a High Magnetic Field Break Superconductivity?
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Undergrad Reverse Bias in P-N Junctions: Why Don't Electrons Diffuse Back?
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Graduate Conductor band overlap definition question
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Graduate Aharonov Bohm Effect - Impurity Scattering and Phase Coherence
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Graduate How does silicon's reflectivity change when a solar cell conducts current?
- shantanuphadke
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Undergrad A question on p-n junction depletion layer
- cjs94
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Undergrad Measuring the focal length of a deformable lens
- almueller32
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High School Ocean water compression question
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Graduate Physical explanation for power broadening
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Graduate Density equations (light considered as reservioir)
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