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Graduate U(1) Gauge Symmetry: What Informs Its Choice?
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Graduate Thermal Conductivity: Nonmetal Impact on Change
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Buy Neodymium Magnets: Skin Pinching, Shattering Power Explained
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Graduate Coupling only to the center of mass degrees of freedom?
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Undergrad Why is the Energy Level Higher on the P Side of a PN Junction Diode?
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Graduate Electron collision and periodic crystal
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Graduate Drude Model: Electrons & Collisions
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Graduate Is the Fermi Surface Relevant for Metals with Band Structure?
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Graduate Explaining the Relation Between \gamma N_+ and 2N_{++}+N_{+-}
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Graduate Why Doesn't Volume of Crystal Depend on Temperature?
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Graduate Why Is Each Quantum Oscillator's Energy Approximated as kT at Low Temperatures?
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Graduate Why does anion vacancy act as a 'hole-killer'?
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Graduate Thermal annealing to induce nanoparticle formation
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Graduate Are Phonon Collisions Responsible for Quantized Lattice Vibrations?
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Graduate Geometric phase of a parallel transport over the surface of a sphere
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Graduate Phonon Interactions & Brillioun Zone Mapping
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Undergrad Valence electrons in insulators
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Undergrad How does stimulated emmision work?
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Graduate Anisotropy and demagnetizing field
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Graduate Momentum conservation in a direct transition
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Graduate Is spin conserved in tunneling?
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Graduate How Does the Cell Constant d Relate to Diffraction Angles in Bragg's Law?
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Graduate Fourier component crystal potential - physical significance
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Graduate Density of states free electron gas
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Graduate How does Einstein's equation account for changes in mass during nuclear bonding?
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Graduate Mechanical property of quasicrystals
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Graduate What is the Connection Between Bragg Reflection and Energy Band Gaps in Solids?
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Graduate Description of optical tweezers: Ponderomotive force?
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Graduate How Do Nano Particles Enhance Material Properties?
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Graduate Does amorphous solids support phonons or nomal modes of vibration.?
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Graduate TE, TM and TEM Modes in Lasers
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Graduate Why canal rays need a perforated cathode?
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Undergrad Programming the Nearly Free Electron Model Band Diagram for BCC and FC
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Graduate Is the MRI Signal a Combination of Longitudinal and Transverse Magnetic Waves?
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Undergrad What is the relationship between wavelength and excited shells in atoms?
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Graduate Signals, spectra, resonance, etc.
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Graduate Relaxation times/frequencies of Polarization Mechanisms
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Graduate Question on Hellman-Feynman Theorem
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Undergrad Why do charges accumulate at grain boundaries?
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Undergrad Understanding Eutectic Compositions: The Science Behind Melting Points
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Graduate Interface (Maxwell-Wagner) Polarization and Dielectric Loss
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Graduate Missing Reflections in FCC/BCC Crystals: Bragg Model Inadequate?
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Undergrad Why does the atomic radii get smaller from the left to right?
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Graduate Channeltron contamination/cleaning
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High School What is the percentage of empty space in an atom?
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Graduate Umklapp Scattering & Conservation of Energy
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Undergrad Universal Gas constant and arrhenius equation
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Graduate Electron Doping and Permittivity
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Graduate Fermi Distribution: Explaining QM POV w/ Wave Functions
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Graduate Why Can't Electrons Move Inside the Valence Band?
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Graduate Brillouin Zones, Phonons, Energy Propagation through a Crystal
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Undergrad Main reason why semiconductor is used and not a pure metal for detec
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Graduate Understanding Density of States in 3d Crystals: A Comprehensive Explanation
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Graduate Depleted region in Semiconductor and leakage current
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Graduate Considering spin in the transport of nanoscale devices
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Graduate Understanding energy bands in solids
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Graduate Why does bringing N 1-orbital atoms together yield N levels?
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High School Can We See Atoms and Molecules Without High Powered Microscopes?
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Graduate Which solvent is best for dissolving graphene flakes?
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Graduate High symmetry points and lines in Brillioun Zone
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Graduate How do the effects of semiconductor doping affect the Hall effect?
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Graduate Magnetic Structure: Distinguishing Neutron Diffraction Data
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Undergrad Resistance of graphene dispersion
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Undergrad Comparison of DFB edge emitting laser vs. VCSEL
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Graduate What Influences the Depletion Region Thickness in a P-N Junction Diode?
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Graduate Difference Between Spinons and Psinons
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Graduate What's the physical interpretation of ρ for dipole forbidden channel?
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Graduate Is the P-N junction the only means to acheive a depletion region?
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Graduate Accessing electrons from the Fermi Sea?
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Graduate Radial distribution function question
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Graduate Optical and acoustic modes
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Undergrad Phonons: What Are They and How Do They Work?
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Graduate Why do beams interact in scattering?
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Graduate Inside radius of atomic electron cloud vs Z
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Undergrad What is the Energy of One Hydrogen Atom?
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Graduate Lattice Simulations on a Sphere in Condensed Matter
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Graduate Does Spin have rotational kinetic energy?
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Undergrad Carbon Atom Arrangement in Organic Compounds: Exploring Covalent Bond Angles
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Graduate Ferromagnetism for 3d, 4f metals
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Graduate Why is this correct - particle lifetime probability distribution
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High School Covalent bond of 2 or more atoms?
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Graduate What Are Acoustical and Optical Branches in Crystal Waves?
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Graduate Ordered lattice necessary for band structure?
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Graduate Paramagnetism of Free Ions. Sign problem.
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Graduate Can Geometrical Frustration be Relieved in Heisenberg Spins?
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Undergrad Why does platinum adsorb hydrogen
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Graduate Coherent state between a fermion and a photon
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Graduate Classical Phonons: Solving Differential/Difference Equation
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Graduate Unraveling the Pairing Mechanism in Cuprate Superconductors
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Undergrad What is the difference between bulk, cluster, and molecule in material science?
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Graduate Radiation absorption and temperature changes in matter
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Undergrad Why Must the Wavelength Be Smaller Than the Interplanar Spacing in Bragg's Law?
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Graduate How Does Pressure Affect Phase Transitions and Volume in Solids Like Iron?
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Graduate Energy Bands and Molecular Orbitals
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Graduate Vector model of atom. Hopefully easy question.
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Graduate Value of L for the ground state of Vanadium (II)
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Graduate Applications of Trapped Photons
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Graduate How does heating up a material affect the momentum of phonons?
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Graduate How Do Atomic Positions of Iron (BCC) Change with Increasing Atom Numbers?
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Graduate Difference between gapless excitations and Goldstone bosons
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