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Graduate Effective Mass in Indirect Band Gap Semiconductors
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Undergrad How Laser Cooling works - Explained
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Graduate Do electrons exist within a Cooper Pair?
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Graduate Deriving equation to describe lattice vibrations of a one dimensional crystal
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Undergrad The force, which attracts e to nucleus
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Graduate Biased nanoelectronic device simulation
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Graduate What is the Jellium Model? Magic Numbers Explained
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Graduate Finding the recoil energy of an excited atom when it de-excites
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Graduate Question about phonons and conductivity
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Graduate Ab initio methods molecular polarizability
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Graduate Schottky diodes and the Shockley-Haynes experiment
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Graduate Langevin Curve Fitting for Magnetization and Applied Field Relationship
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Graduate Should the oriatation of the cell be like hexagonal lattices
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Graduate First principles to find the atomic units of energy,length and time
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Graduate Understanding Reciprocal Space in Solid State Physics
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Graduate Matter on it verge of zero energystare
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Graduate How Does the RF B1 Field in NMR Spectrometry Flip Net Magnetization?
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Undergrad Relation between conductivity and permittivity
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Graduate Resonant and Non Resonant Susceptibility
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Graduate Wigner-Seitz = Brillouin Zone?
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Graduate How Does the Brillouin Zone Influence Electron Wavefunctions in Solids?
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Graduate Simple BCS theory: question about the internal energy
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High School TiC vs Ti50C50: What Do the Numbers Mean?
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Graduate How could vary the Helium emission spectrum?
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Undergrad Surface Plasmon Explained - Get the Answers!
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Graduate Cooper pairs - 2nd quantization
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Graduate Total and dihedral energies ffrom MD simulations
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Graduate TiC Behavior: Bulk Titanium Carbide Research
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Undergrad How a Good Conductor is always a good Conductor
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Undergrad Why each GPS satellite holds four atomic clocks?
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Graduate New Superconductor Developed at Brookhaven Lab
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Graduate Do gas molecules align with gravity?
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Graduate What will come out of the 24th Solvay? (topic=condensed matter)
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Undergrad Mono and polycristallin material
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High School Atomic Weight: What Governs the Number of Neutrons?
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The discrete self-trapping equation
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High School Molecules back to singular atoms.
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Graduate What is the Significance of Resonance in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance?
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Graduate Why Are Bandgap and Electron Effective Mass Proportional in Semiconductors?
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Graduate Hypothetical Nanotechnology Question
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Graduate How is the Electron-Phonon Interaction Hamiltonian derived?
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Graduate How Does Laser Beam Influence Atom's Dipole Transition Moments?
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Undergrad What's the physical meaning of true shear strain and simple shear strain
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Graduate Possible typo in Ashcroft & Mermin's book?
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Graduate Harvest Free Electrons from Plasma Field?
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Graduate High Temperature Superconductors
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Undergrad Miller Index Problem - Is it (102) or (112)?
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Graduate Is it possible to convert light into matter?
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Graduate Highery energy photon on lower band gap semiconductor
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Undergrad Questions about Light: Will Cold Chamber Affect Beam?
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Graduate C-V Curve Measurement: Need Expertise from HP LCR Meter
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Undergrad How to get spectra from a metal?
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Graduate Energy conservation in heating by irradiation
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Graduate Longitudinal acoustic phonons: why does the dielectric function vanish?
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Graduate How Many Bravais Lattices Exist?
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Graduate Transition from valence band to conduction at T above 0K + procedure
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High School Why does light go through glass
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Graduate Calculating High-Symmetry Point Coordinates in Band Structure Computations
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Graduate Indirect Transition in indirect semicondutor material
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Graduate Understanding Band Bending at Metal-Semiconductor Junctions
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Graduate Free Electron Model: Why periodic boundary conditions and what is L ?
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Undergrad Research which involves some semiconductors
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Graduate Non-equilibrium conduction electrons
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Undergrad Ionization energy for He gas tubes
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Graduate Copper oxide plane and brillouin zone
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Graduate Why Are Reciprocal Quantities Used to Define Atomic Planes?
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Graduate BCS Theory & Cooper Pairs in Cuprate Superconductors
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Graduate Generic formula including many-body effects for field emission current
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Graduate BCS Theory: Noobish Question Explained
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Graduate Unraveling the Dynamics of Phonon-Electron Interactions in Solids
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Undergrad Atomic Radius: Uncovering How It's Figured Out A2 Physics
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Graduate Lattice field theory in solid state physics
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Graduate Trapping Electrons in Semiconductors: Explained
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Graduate Is there a formula for the temperature dependence of Debye temperature?
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Graduate Maxwell-boltzman distribution under gallilean transformation
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Graduate Using Asylum Research AFM to Make Custom Force Plots
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Undergrad What is the size of water particles in gas and water phases?
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Graduate Order parameter of charge density wave in one dimension
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Undergrad Understanding Exchange Bias: An Introduction for Beginners
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Graduate Exploring Reciprocal Space in Crystallography
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Graduate Calculating Stress Tensor and Voltage for MEMS Project
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Graduate Can Ultra High Temperatures and Densities Reveal New States of Matter?
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Graduate Is the Schroedinger equation not fundamental in BCS theory?
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Graduate Question about Spectral Density at the Fermi level
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Graduate Question about fine-structure and free vacuum constants
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Undergrad Van der Waals radius not applicable to most elements?
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Graduate Why is work function almost always in the range 4-6 eV?
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Graduate How Do F-Centres Influence Crystal Density?
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Graduate Harmonicity in phonon transport
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Graduate What Is the Work Function of Anatase TiO2?
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Graduate Maximum Atomic Weight: What is Possible Beyond 150?
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Graduate Solid State Palladium: 27 Atoms in a Unit Cell?
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Graduate When the electrons hit the bandgap
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Undergrad Ionizing particles (alpha & beta)
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Undergrad Are atoms 'perpetual machines'?
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Graduate Analyzing Data: Comparing Plots to Experimental Data
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Graduate What is the Definition of Frustration in Physics?
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Graduate Effect of Effective Mass on Material Band Structure
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