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Analyse XRD Data to Find Lattice Constant & Crystal Structure
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Deconvolution IRF from fluorescence decay curves
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Gas Density & Force: Process to Turn Extremely Dense?
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Josephson Effect: AC vs. DC Explained
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Optical Conductivity: Explained & Compared to DC Conductivity
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Plasma Frequency of Bulk Silver in Terahertz Range
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Is This Expression for Electrostatic Potential Valid Under the Jellium Model?
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What is the impact of bias on DC sputtering for thin film deposition?
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Do vibrational energy levels decay?
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Gas, Liquids, and solids : Details
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Ionized dopants and quasi-fermi level
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Plot of Ginzburg-Landau parameters
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How Do We Calculate Magnetic Susceptibility Using Curie's Law?
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Thermopower Wave: Nanotube Electron Entrainment
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Atom position (coordinates) from symmetry
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How is the k.p method used in semiconductor systems?
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How do photons interact with nuetrons or other uncharged particles?
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What is the Bose-Einstein State and How Does it Compare to Plasma?
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Symmetry of the Bloch Ground State
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What Can Photoelectron Spectroscopy Reveal About Surface Structure?
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Electron Radius r_s: Data & Resources
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How Does Rydberg Energy Apply to Exciton Binding Calculations?
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Where Does the Nonlinear Optics Wave Equation Come From?
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First brillouin zone construction
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Crazy idea about atomic structure
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Collective modes and restoration of gauge invariance in superconductivity
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Supercell Tight Binding: Understanding and Troubleshooting
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Plane-wave molecular integrals
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Calculation of Isotop lifetimes
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Why is a boron doped diamond xtal blue ?
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Potential energy separation curve
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Stochastic Differential Equations
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Question about Rutherford atomic model
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Why the term diffraction in XRD
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Light Illumination effect on metal conductivity
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Electron hole theory in Semiconductors
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Is Silicene the New Graphene? (Atom-Thick Silicon)
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.Books on Quantum Confinement and Consequences
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Pointers to start understanding topological insulators
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Exp(i k.r) ~ A travelling wave ?
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Linear Polarisability interesting problem
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Can you explain the coupling of surface plasmons with photons?
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Can we easily extract effective masses from Si band structure?
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Why do some materials reflect and others absorb light?
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Codes for constructing matrix of Hamiltonion of 2D square Tight-bonding model
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Superconducting d-wave dispersion
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Why does signal yield increase with shorter wavelength in Raman spectroscopy?
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Why don't electrons in the same orbital repel
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What Does the Third-Rank Tensor Represent in Nonlinear Optics?
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A description of fire at an atomic level
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Superconductivity and electron pair
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A simple model of a transistor/LED/photodiode
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Is the topological insulators a result of boundary conditions with SO coupling ?
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Dynamic Equilibrium: Is System Still At Equilibrium During Shift?
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Difference between Raman scattering and Rayleigh scattering
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Nonlinear Optics: Understanding NLO Chromophores and Polarization
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XRD Database: Online Resource for Crystal X-Ray Diffraction Peaks
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Crystallite Size from XRD (comments on method required)
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Fresnel Equations - Equal Entry/Exit Reflection
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What goes on in a semiconductor.
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Observing the Stark Effect in the Lab: Visible to the Eye?
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Why Do 2p and 2d Lines Appear in Electron Transition Events?
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What colors can we expect from sub-atomic particles?
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Brillouin Zone & K Point Explained
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Room temperature positive magnetoresistance
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What is the significance of n+, p+, and p doping in silicon wafers?
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Question on Virtual Crystal Approx.(VCA)
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Interacting Spins , Heisenberg Hamiltonian , Tensor product
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Trying to understand quantum-mechanical conduction
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What does spin degrees of freedom mean?
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Zero Resistivity in superconductors
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Origin of Attractive Electron Interaction
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Strange problem with Direct Simulation Monte Carlo
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What are the key differences between the free electron model and plasma?
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Magnitude of the electric dipole moment in semiconductors
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Find the critical temperature of a bismuth based ceramic
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Ground state properties of Hubbard model
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Equilibrium Statistical Operator for Grand Canonical Ensemble
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One dimensional stress,strain,deflection analysis
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What are the potential applications of pseudo-magnetism in strained graphene?
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Calculate Overlap of PZ Orbitals Dependent on Interatomic Distance
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Projects on monte carlo simulations
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Fermi-Dirac statistics at the Fermi level
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Why Is the Angle Between Hydrogen Atoms in Water Molecules 105 Degrees?
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Penetration Depth of Oxygen in Iron Thin Films
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Alpha particle trajectories from Li disintegration
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Uncovering the Mystery of Soft Optical Modes
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Are blocks (billets) of metal crystals?
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Deriving DOS of Bilayer Graphene Under Electric Field
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Help for supercell, Bloch function
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Is a Room Temperature Superconductor Achievable?
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Why Do Hadrons Weigh More Than the Sum of Their Quarks?
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E vs K Diagrams: Understanding Crystal Momentum & Velocity
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BCS theory by canonical transformation
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Calculate dielectric function from n and k
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Transition states of electron in atom
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Fourier Transform of correlation functions
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Thermal to electric conversion with diodes
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How can a compound said to be glass?
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Solar Cells in Forward/Reverse Bias?
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