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Graduate How can I calculate the number of dopants (atoms/cm^3) from a

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Graduate Miller Indices of Simple Cubic Lattice

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Graduate Calculating Weight Loss Rate: TGA/DSC Measurements

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Graduate Bonding analysis at HOMO, could you please give me some hints.

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Undergrad J.J Thompson's Cathode Ray Experiment

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Graduate Microwaves and heating on molecular level

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Graduate How oxidation effects band structure of metals?

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Graduate Pseudogap and phonon gap. Does phonon (pseudo)gap exist?

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Graduate The band gap discontinuity in DFT?

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Graduate Hydrogen absorption capabilities by transional metals.

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Graduate Possibility of another subatomic particle.

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Graduate Topological classification of defects

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Graduate How Are Dressed States Related to AC-Stark Splitting?

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Graduate Why does charge transfer reduce the covalent component of a heteropolar bond?

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Graduate Landau-Zener model & adiabacity

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Graduate Converting between Crystallographic Notations: A Simple Guide

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High School What is the influence of electrostatic on water ?

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Graduate Hydrogen atom in a gravitational field

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Graduate Visualization of a reciprocal lattice

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Graduate Ewald sphere vs Brillouin Zone

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Graduate Where does the energy come from? (superconduction)

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Undergrad Could Graphene Become the Next Silicon?

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Graduate Laser Cooling: Understanding the Limits of Reaching v=0 in Doppler Cooling

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Graduate Energy released when splitting H2

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Graduate Why some metals are not superconductors?

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Graduate Localization of Molecular Orbitals

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Graduate Simple water potential for MD Simulation

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Graduate DLVO interaction: Choice of Hamaker constants

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Graduate Optoelectronic devices what rms linewidth means?

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Graduate How do rotational and vibrational energies in molecules depend on masses?

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Undergrad Free Electron Theory: Majority From d/f Orbitals?

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Graduate Does Pure Water Always Remain a Liquid When Heated Without Nucleation Sites?

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Graduate Silicon: Lattice spacing <111><100> Thermodynamics and Bloch theorem

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Graduate Is there a connection between mass defect and bound energy?

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Graduate Hard disk radial distribution function

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Graduate Closed orbits in hydrogen when exposed to vertical electric field

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Undergrad Why Use Reciprocal Lattice for Band Structure?

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Undergrad What does 'probing a transition' mean?

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Graduate What is the most accurate way to represent the heavy nucleus of an element?

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Graduate Calculate an Integral: Intro to Superconductivity by M. Tinkham

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Graduate Question: Can elements above iron actually be clusters of smaller elements?

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Graduate Wave Vectors of Light vs. Phonons: A Puzzling Paradox

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Graduate Transition of neon from ground state to excited state

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Undergrad We all know that Cv for a monoatomic ideal gas is 3/2 R and when we

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Graduate Spin +1 vs -1: Does Antimatter Spin Differently?

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Graduate Exploring the Heights of K-Alpha and K-Beta Peaks in X-Ray Production

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Searching for L. Vegard & Z. Kristallogr. Papers

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Undergrad What is the isolated spectral line?

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Undergrad Semiconductor Doping: Does Impurity Type Matter?

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Graduate Solid Angle of the Sun Derivation

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Graduate Diffraction on a body centered lattice, h+k+l even?

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Graduate Interpretation of the polarizability

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Graduate Law of mass action involved in impurity level

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Graduate Direct ionization as a result of photoionization- What is the probability?

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Graduate Thermal Motion to Blackbody Radiation Derivation

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Graduate Maxwell-boltzmann distribution on detector

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Undergrad Understanding HCP Crystal Structure: Confusion with Coordinates of Center Atom

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Undergrad What Are Quantum Dots and How Do They Work?

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High School Radioactive Dating Question, Half-Life.

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Graduate Wording of a question confusion.

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Graduate Absorption spectra of molecular hydrogen

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Graduate About the energy bands, fermi levels in PN junctions?

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Graduate MD-Orienting lattice in LAMMPS

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Graduate Charge & Spin Ordering: Explained & Bond Lengths

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Undergrad Why is the product of n0 and po always a constant for a given

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Graduate Count rates from X-ray Fluorescence Spectrum

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Graduate How to model a permanent magnet?

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Graduate Understanding the Cooper Pair in a Box: Questions & Intro

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Graduate Irreversibility temperature in superconductors

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Graduate Creating a CONFIG File for DL_POLY

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Graduate Static dielectric constant of NaCl

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Graduate Entangled Atoms in Salt: Uncovering the Surprising Results of a 2003 Experiment

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Graduate How does an electron lose kinetic energy near an atom's nucleus?

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Graduate Infinite Temperature and its Implications in High Temperature Mechanics

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Graduate Why is high exciton binding energy in ZnO important?

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Graduate Can someone please explain this concept for me? As I understand

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Graduate What is a maxwell construction.?

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Graduate Alpha Decay & Ionization: Modeling an Electron's Tunneling

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Graduate Brillouin zones and the E-k relation

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High School What's smaller than an atom? (Sub-Atomic?)

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Graduate Hartree Fock method for Molecules

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Graduate How to get parameters of interaction between atoms of H2 and C6H6?

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Graduate Are phonon's actually a real particle, or is it a trick of QM?

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Graduate How we measure magnetisation in antiferromagnetics?

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Graduate Perovskites Basics: Finding Good Review Articles

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Graduate Optical Phonons in Single Atom Crystals: Unraveling the Mystery

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Graduate What is the unique design of the Zeeman slower in PRA 71 023409 2005?

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Graduate Powder pattern calculation from single crystal data

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Graduate Wave vector of a polariton mode

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Graduate What are the best solid-state lasers for optical experiments in nano materials?

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Undergrad Why is HCP more common than FCC in elemental compositions?

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Graduate What has bandgap gotta do with binding energy and stability?

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Graduate Can Nonradiative Decay occur for a single atom?

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Graduate Nonlocal electrodynamics of superconductors

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Graduate What are the limitations of magnetisation for S=1/2 systems?

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Graduate Light emitting diodes and Planck's Constant

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High School Do Atoms Get Destroyed When Metal Melts?

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High School Is a hydrogen free radical just a hydrogen atom?

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High School Experiment Proving Electrons Have Same Mass & Charge

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Graduate Distinguishing 1st/2nd Order Phase Transformations in Crystals

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