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Undergrad How are X-rays emittted from laboratory plasma?
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Graduate Why quantum mechanics follows octet rule?
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3D Subatomic Particle and Molecule Creator
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Graduate Fermi statistics in experiments
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High School Ionization Energy: What Makes Inert Gases Special?
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Graduate Dielectric Function: Relation to Frequency & Wavevector
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Graduate Calculating Electron-Electron Self Energy in Fermi Liquid Systems
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Graduate Crystal Planes: Definition & Meaning
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Graduate Group theory and characters table
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Graduate Boundary Conditions for Fermi Gas
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Graduate What Do Colors and Shapes Represent in Stereographic Projections?
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Graduate Static Charge & Samples: Exploding Limits
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Graduate Is There a UV Lamp that Can Generate 150 nm Light for Bandgap Measurement?
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High School How do ions form in chemical reactions?
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Graduate Electrostatics and band structures?
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Undergrad Atomic structure and classification studies
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Graduate Understanding 3D Si Dispersion Relations & Reciprocal Lattice Vectors
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Undergrad Why do we need a substrate while growing?
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Graduate Polariton BEC, Polariton Laser - Applications?
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Graduate Dispersion relation diagrams, phonons
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Graduate Predicting Crystal Structures in Metals: Is There a Simple Explanation?
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Graduate Understanding the Scherrer Formula for X-Ray Reflectivity Studies
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Graduate Understanding the Photoelectric Effect and Its Quantum Electronic Nature
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High School Understand the meaning of an electron
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Graduate Donor and acceptor levels in band diagrams
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Undergrad Examples of Cutting Edge Semiconductor Devices?
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Graduate Indirect absorption processes -
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Graduate Metastable 1s2s3p Excited State of Helium: Explanation
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Undergrad YBCO critical temperature not right
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Undergrad Calculating Charge Carrier Density in Materials: Formula and Table of Values
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Graduate Bose-Einstein Condensation in 1D and 2D Gases: Possibilities and Applications?
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Graduate Atom Electron cloud interaction with Energy
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Graduate How to include disorder in the numerical computation?
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Graduate What is Spintronics and How Does Spin-Orbit Coupling Play a Role?
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Undergrad Is it possible to use spectroscopy to see vibrations in a material?
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Graduate Gain saturation in laser cavity
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Graduate Understanding the Concept of Phonons
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Graduate Why do we need Gamma point in Band structure
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Graduate WHY is drift current through a PN junction independent of applied bias voltages?
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Graduate Atomic Orbitals & Circular Membranes: Is There a Connection?
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High School Do Electrons Have Mass or Just Energy?
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Graduate Is K2(Pt(CN)4Br0.3).3H2O an Example of Anisotropic Metallicity?
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Graduate Metal invisible in the ultraviolet?
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Undergrad Question about lanthanides and actinides
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Graduate Measuring effects of magnetic field on electrons in a tunneling state
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Undergrad How Can We Visualize a Hydrogen Atom as a Basketball?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics/ Ferromagnitism
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Graduate Two photon absorption coefficient of silicon
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Undergrad Permanent Magnets: How Energy Is Stored in Magnetic Fields
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Undergrad Question Concerning Coulomb's Law
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Undergrad How are materials brought to (near) absolute zero?
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Graduate Lattice Waves: Atom Chain Fixed at Ends or Free is Space?
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Graduate Why only first brillouin zone?
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Graduate Can the Band Structure Diagram be Represented in Real Space Instead of k-Space?
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Graduate Atoms Energy Emission, Absorption
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Graduate What Does the Order Parameter in BCS Theory Represent?
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Graduate Shape of Orbitals in Periodic Crystals: Hybridization and Energy Bands
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Graduate Understanding Phonons - Making Sense of Virtual Particles
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Graduate Photonic Band Structure Calculation
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Graduate Defining Work Function for Semiconductors
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Graduate Si ellipsoids of constant energy?
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Undergrad Can someone simply describe the definition of the chemical potential?
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Graduate Surface Potential: Measuring Confined Electrons & Holes
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Graduate Superconductivity in fullerides
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Graduate Understanding the Reciprocal Lattice Structure of Zinc-Blende
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Graduate Designing a Zeeman Slower for Scientists
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High School What is Shear Flow? Does it Impact Viscosity?
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Graduate Optimizing Semiconductor Efficiency: Exploring Cost-Free Materials
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Graduate Doping of semiconductors and fermi energy.
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Graduate Understanding Phonons & Quantum Sound Waves in a Lattice
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Graduate Critical field for a superconductor - why?
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Graduate Atom and Electron Cloud Alignment
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Graduate Please share with me about your thinking on Fermi Energy
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Graduate Is Bose-Einstein Condensation Possible in Two Dimensions?
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Undergrad Meaning of labs-on-a chip in imicrofluidic devices
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Undergrad Silicon exhibits metallic luster
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Graduate How to Calculate Transmission Spetrum
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Undergrad What knows the precise radius of these ions?
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Graduate Understanding Effective Mass of Holes in GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Wells
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Graduate Life time in spontaneous emission for laser
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Graduate Atoms in a Vacuum: Valance Electrons & Energy Output
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Graduate Superconductor 'meissner effect' help
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Undergrad Objects melt and burned if a high energy ray is shined unto it?
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High School Water's Explosive Expansion: Can It Really Happen?
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Graduate Why Are the Results in My PDF Different from the Attached Paper?
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Graduate How Do Quantum Numbers and Wavefunctions Define States in a Fermi Gas?
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Graduate Why does sodium have a doublet?
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Graduate Why is orthogonality crucial in basis sets despite atomic orbital overlap?
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Graduate Ultra high vacuum with scanning tunneling microscope
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Undergrad Why the tetrahedral angle is 109 deg 28 min?
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Undergrad Are degrees of freedom in a molecule affected by phase change?
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Graduate Hatree-Fock Formalism: Correlation Energy & Exchange Effects
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Graduate Does Including Excited States Improve Accuracy in Configuration Interaction?
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Graduate Fourier absorption spectra of Carbon monoxide
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Undergrad Understanding Atom Excitation in He-Ne Lasers
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Undergrad Atomic Binding Agent: How Electrons Stay Together
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Graduate Kramers Kronig transforms for refractive index
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Graduate Density functional theory, and Kohn Sham equations
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Undergrad Understanding Miller Indices to Interpreting Crystal Planes
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Undergrad Semiconductor Questions: Carrier Lifetimes and Temperature Effects
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