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Graduate Electric field and built-in potential in metal-insulator-metal
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High School Are There Fast-Responding Photoresistors for Light Sensing?
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Graduate Crystal Structure of Metals at Absolute Zero, Waves
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Graduate How can the total energy of a Fe supercell be estimated?
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Graduate Calculating Ʃn(E) with Boson States
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Graduate Density of states, localized states.
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Undergrad The axes in Raman spectroscopy
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Undergrad Why does regularity bring stability?
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Graduate Learning Resources - Semiconductor Physics
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Graduate What caused the secondary peak in our photoluminescence experiment?
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Graduate Help with EM waves travelling through a plasma
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Graduate Lande' g-Factor: Is a Reduced Mass Correction Needed?
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Undergrad Exponential Binning: Plotting Data with f(x) = x^α
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Graduate Classical and quantum Heisenberg model
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Graduate Antiferromagnet more subblatices
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Undergrad Hall effect for p-type semiconductor
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Graduate Ground configuration of Equivalent electrons
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Graduate Material has low excitation temperature
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Graduate Collapse of a macroscopic Bose-Einstein condensate
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Undergrad Fermi level in n-type or p-type semiconductors
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Undergrad Atom distance and repulsive energy
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Graduate What is the minimum thickness required for ferromagnetism in thin films?
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Graduate Creating an Atomic Screen: A Solution to Separating Nuclei in Physics
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Graduate Maximum Fluorescence Energy vs Excitation
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Graduate SQUID: What and How Does It Measure?
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Graduate How can there be interference of light rays in Bragg's law
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Graduate Electron in a field: Canonical momentum versus kinematical momentum
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Graduate Effect of gravity on subatomic particles
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Graduate Definition of transient absorbtion
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Graduate Question on density functional theory
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Graduate Tight binding in graphene (complex energy?)
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Graduate Partition function vs config integral
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Graduate Why symmetry breaking a paradigm whilst not describing Fermi liquid?
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Graduate Self Trapped & Charge Transfer Excitons
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Graduate Effective atomic number for a mixture (with components concentration)
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Graduate Why is Uranium 235 Unstable & Nuclear Fission Explained
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Graduate P Orbital Notation: Common Conventions
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Graduate About photoelectron spectroscopy, work function, ionization potential
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Graduate Reciprocal Space: Symmetry Operations and Vector Components
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Graduate Vibrational partition function - Calculate from several frequencies
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Graduate Best way to ionized hydrogen gas?
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Graduate Ligand field theory and f orbitals in magnetism
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Undergrad Confused about the sizes of atomic particles
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Graduate Rashba effect due to the external electric field
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Graduate Theory questions on superconductivity
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Graduate Question on Lithium-6 superfluidity
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Graduate How could one theoretically predict a material's permittivity?
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Graduate Can negative dielectric possible
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Graduate What energy is this? Related to monoatomic ideal gas
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Undergrad A question about photoconductivity and photoresistors
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High School Hydrogen Atom Shells: Inner & Outer Electron Shells?
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Graduate Uncovering the Meissner Effect: Clarifications Needed
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Undergrad Young's modulus value of Ferrous Tungsten
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Graduate The wave function at the border of Wigner-Seitz cell
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Graduate Arrhenius plot and activation energy
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Graduate Etching SnO2 Thin Films: Advice Needed
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Graduate How does an atomic nucleus have a measurable diameter
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Graduate Explore Properties of Semiconductors for CdS: Band Gap, Effective Mass & More
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Undergrad Relation between RAMAN Intensity and Energy of the photon
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Undergrad What's the difference between lattice vectors and basis vectors?
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Graduate Help with the Tight Binding model
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Undergrad What Are Ritz Wavelengths in the NIST Atomic Spectra Database?
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Graduate Semiconductor Electromagnetic Wave Interactions
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High School What causes the transparency of glass?
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Graduate Optoelectronics: Why Semiconductors?
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Graduate Van der Waals force (Lenard-Jones)
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Graduate Spectra: line mixing explanation?
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IBM's world in the macro-sphere
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Graduate Hyperfine Interactions: What, How & Cs-133
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Graduate Why is a single layer of atoms referred to as 2d ?
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Graduate P Orbitals: Meaning of + & - Signs in Lobes
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Graduate Quantum dots:emission versus absorption spectrum
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Undergrad Atomic Spectra: Study of Symmetrical Lines from n=1
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Graduate Band structure and diffraction intensity
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Graduate Harmonic vs Anharmonic Interactions in Lattice
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Graduate Why does the model interaction for Cooper pairs make sense?
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Graduate Can FGR and the fine structure constant explain high intensity in dark field?
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Graduate Photovoltaic systems to work at much lower energies
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Undergrad Can cooling lasers extract energy and reach absolute zero?
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Graduate Can anyone tell me the features of reciprocal space?
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Graduate Photons and electrons and electricity.
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Undergrad Chemical Potential: Formula for Finding Molecular/Atomic Potential
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Graduate Using Density Functional Theory to make a Tight Binding model?
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Graduate Expanding the periodic potentials
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Graduate Conventional absorbtion spectra and E_g
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Undergrad Difference between Primitive cell, unit cell and a wigner-seitz cell.
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Graduate Why is z=1 below Tc in Bose Einstein condensation?
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Graduate Can Intraband Transitions Produce Holes in the Conduction Band of Metals?
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Graduate Why Is the Density of States the Same in Both Real and Reciprocal Space?
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Graduate Understanding Phonon Dispersion Relation
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Graduate Doping Rutile TiO2 with Quantum ESPRESSO v5.0.1
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Undergrad What are the various applications of superconductors?
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Graduate How Does the Dyson-Maleev Representation Benefit Solid State Physics?
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Undergrad What Makes Iron Ferromagnetic?
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Graduate Research problem-photoresist thickness
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Graduate Excitons: Opposite Movements of Bound Electron-Hole Pairs
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Graduate Can You Help Me Find an Article on Producing Thin Film Lithium CoO?
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Undergrad Doubts about basics of superconductivity.
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Undergrad What materials can be used as a superconductor?
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Graduate What's achievable with pulsed lasers?
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