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Undergrad Notation for semiconductor alloy
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High School Help: The thermal expansion coefficient of spring.
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Undergrad Why not indirect band gap for led
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Graduate Solving Surface Plasmons: Understanding Components & Charge Density
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Graduate Physical origin of different phase velocities.
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Undergrad Elementary crystal cell or the whole crystal?
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Graduate Spin orbit interaction and LS coupling
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Graduate Electrons in Graphene: Massless Like Photons?
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Graduate Lamp, p-n, nanotubes transistors
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Graduate Could a Photo-atomic Refrigerator Be the Future of Cooling Technology?
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Graduate Packing fraction for multi-atom basis
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Graduate Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
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Graduate Semi-Classical Treatment of Spin Waves in Antiferromagnetic Systems
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Graduate Density of states for non-interacting systems
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Undergrad What distinguishes insulators from dielectrics?
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High School Atom Shapes: Visualizing Electron Clouds
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Graduate How Does an Electric Field Affect Energy Levels in a Quantum Well?
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Graduate Vibrational Partition Function
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High School Where Does an Electron Reside in the Cloud Model?
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Graduate Matter mechanics: Ideal & observed stress
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Graduate Lindhard RPA Dielectric Function Electron Gas
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Graduate Understanding Intensity in Spectral Lines: A Brief Overview and Common Questions
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Graduate Electronic properties of graphene
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Graduate Photon reflection from a metal surface
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Undergrad Good software for analyzing STM images?
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Graduate MD simulation of crystal oriented along 110, 111 planes
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Graduate Why are Topological Insulators Called Topological?
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Graduate Velocity distribution of atoms releasing from a surface
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Graduate Superconductivity in type1 and type2?
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Undergrad Unraveling the Mystery of Neutral Atoms and Electric Fields
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Undergrad What is the debye temperature?
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Graduate Relationship interatomic spacing or interplanar spacing and grain size
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High School The desire of atoms for a lower energy state
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Graduate What is the nature of the origin of reciprocal space, please?
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Graduate Confused: Doping and Depletion Zone
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Undergrad Why does sodium light have two distinct wavelengths?
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Graduate Tight binding in cubic crystals
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Graduate Qs: How Group and Period affect semiconductors
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Graduate DFT: Investigating Change in States at Surfaces and Interfaces
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Graduate Behaviour of hydrogen in an electric field
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Graduate Where can I find the free energy for Nitrogen-N2?
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Graduate Modeling the Absorbtion of Silver-doped glass
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Graduate Why does half-filling in a lattice result in a zero chemical potential?
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Graduate Mossbauer Spectroscopy, velocity conversion
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Undergrad Numericals Analysis and Physics
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Graduate Fraction of electrons within kT of fermi energy?
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Graduate Impurities effects in Type II SCs
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Graduate Location of Fermi level in semiconductors
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Undergrad How to make Gallium/Molybdenum Alloy?
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Graduate Diamond Structre Crystallography Questions
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Graduate Matrices of simple face and cubic centered cubic lattice
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Undergrad Demonstrating the stark effect in the lab
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Graduate What is Coherent Population Trapping in Optics?
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Graduate Explaining Surface Plasmon Excitation by Light
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Graduate Tigh-Binding approach for disordered system
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Graduate How Does p_x + i p_y Symmetry Arise in P-Wave Superconductors?
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Graduate Calculating Fermi Level in Quantum Wells
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High School What is a hole and how does it relate to electricity?
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Graduate Kronig-Penney Model: Understanding Electron Potential Energy
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Graduate What do we know about Holons and Spinons?
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Graduate Eigenvalues and density of states
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Graduate Is the wavefunction constant in the tight-binding model?
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High School Are Semiconductors Electrically Charged?
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Graduate Relative permittivity of vacuum aluminum interface?
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Graduate Does a phonon have a location?
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Graduate Surface Plasmon Resonance in Gold Films: My Conundrum
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Graduate Why don't solids fuse spontaneously?
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Graduate Exploring the Mysteries of Cryogenic Electron Emission
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Graduate How to Find the Interatomic Distance in Graphite from Electron Diffraction Data?
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Graduate A question about Intensities and Spectrometers.
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Graduate Interpretation of the Debye length
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Graduate Whats the difference between a vacancy and a hole in semiconductor physics?
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Undergrad A paradox about Drift Velocity
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High School Hardness vs. density (for Elements)
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Graduate Fermi Surface & Band Diagram Relationship?
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Undergrad Difference between hole and +ve ion?
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Graduate How do hyperfine splits occur?
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Graduate Calculating the Schmid factor for an FCC single crystal
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Undergrad Hydrogen Ground State Energies - Question
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Graduate What Happens When an Electron-Hole Meets a Positron-Hole?
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Graduate Are Filled Bands in Insulators Equivalent to Non-Mobile Electrons?
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Graduate What Determines the Magnetic Field Orientation in a P Type Semiconductor Coil?
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Graduate What Is Mrad(Si)? Irradiation Damage To Semiconductor Devices
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Graduate What Are the Key Symmetries and Degeneracies in Lattice Structures?
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Graduate Particular material that becomes strained under electrostatic
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Graduate Hooke's Law: A Beginner's Guide to Tensor Form and Matrix Form
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Graduate Landau quantization and magnetic translation
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Graduate Which code has superior pseudopotentials for ab initio quantum calculations?
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Undergrad How are very low temperatures(-180k) measured?
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Graduate How Do You Calculate the Volume of a Wigner-Seitz Cell in an FCC Lattice?
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Graduate How Does a Cesium Atomic Clock Work?
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Graduate Greens functions and density of states
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Graduate Is metallic hydrogen superconductive at 273k
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Graduate Conduction band and antibonding orbitals
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Graduate How does tunneling explain the behavior of transistors in BJT and FET devices?
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Graduate Longitudinal resistivity in the Quantum Hall Effect
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Undergrad Calculating ratio c/a as 1.633 in HCP?
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Graduate Elastic modulii relation for a sphere
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Graduate Energy Bands: Kronig-Penney Model
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Graduate Effect of Doping on Fermi Energy
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