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Undergrad Semiconductor Questions: Carrier Lifetimes and Temperature Effects
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High School Questions About Subatomic Particles
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Graduate Is Light a Massless Energy or a State of Matter?
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Graduate Understanding the band profile diagram in a junction
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Graduate Conceptual Difficulty with Stat Mech
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Graduate What is the role of Pauli's exclusion principle in superfluidity?
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Graduate Better potential than Lennard-Jones for Carbon Carbon interactions?
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Graduate Super Conducting Coil Properties
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Graduate Methods to deal with Electron correlations
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Graduate Band discontinuities in semiconductor heterojunctions
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High School What Temperature Does Water Boil at and Has it Changed?
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Graduate Relation between Heat Capacity and Polarizability?
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Undergrad Protons and Positive Hydrogen Ions
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Undergrad Wondering about law of mass action
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High School Drift velocity and measurement in wire
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Graduate High-k/Metal gate transistors going into production at Intel, IBM and AMD
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Graduate Anti-symmetric electron wavefunctions
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Graduate Gutzwiller Projections: What Are They & How to Use Them
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Graduate Where do holes go after photoelectric effect?
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Graduate Quantum magnetism and superconductivity
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Graduate Superconducting Tunnel Junctions
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Graduate Kondo resonance - need concept help.
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High School Photoelectric Effect: Grade 12 Questions Answered
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High School Directional Bonding: What is the Difference?
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High School Solving the Mystery of Material Solids: Gage Blocks
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Graduate Request for Data- Band gap of CdSe quantum dots against size
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Graduate Questions about Compton Scattering
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Undergrad Electric Potential and Light Bulbs: How Do They Work?
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Undergrad Hall Coefficient: Intrinsic Material | N & P-Type Equations
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Graduate Incommensurate phases- what is that?
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Undergrad Energy Levels of Holes Explained
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Graduate Binding Energy of Helium-4's Nucleus
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Undergrad Simple DFT Software for Tutorials - Windows Platform
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Graduate How do Gamma point phonons work?
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Graduate Optimizing ising for spin I>1/2
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Undergrad Fundamental Frequencies of Noble Metals
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Undergrad What Are Bands in Electronic Structure?
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Graduate Understanding Secondary Echoes in Spins Rephase NMR
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Graduate Solving non-linear frequency problem, NMR
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Graduate Fabry Perot etalon calibration
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Graduate Plasmons, Surface Plasmons, Localized Plasmons Im confused
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Graduate Why is light travelling below c in different materials
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High School Atomic Number: Differentiating Elements
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Graduate Discover Examples of Matsubara Formalism in Many-Particle Physics"
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High School Tell me websites about thin films
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Graduate High Tc superconductors turn 20
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Graduate What is the equilibrium distance between two hydrogen atoms?
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High School What Is the Difference Between a Crystal and a Crystallite?
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Graduate Linear Viscoelastic Models in Polymer Application
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High School Does the resistance of an LDR vary with frequency?
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Graduate What Does It Mean for 1D RFIM to Be Frustrated?
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History of GaN & GaP Technology
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Undergrad Why Are Some Materials Better Conductors/Insulators than Others?
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Graduate Dependence of size on electrical permittivity
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Undergrad A problem about solid spectrum
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Undergrad Bohr Energy Levels: Explaining the Concept & Equations
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Graduate Classical Treatment of Potential in Carbon Nanotube: Info & Resources
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Graduate Anderson Model & Kondo Hamiltonian - Suggestions & Refs
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Graduate What Is the Role of Epoxy in the Structure of a 3D Phononic Crystal?
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Undergrad Vergard's Law Help - Get References & Read About It
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Undergrad Why is it difficult to visualize the structure of an atom and its components?
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Graduate Why Is the Fermi Energy Constant Across a PN Junction at Equilibrium?
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Graduate Determining Tc value of various superconductors
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Graduate Why is aligning the vacuum level necessary in band diagram creation?
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Graduate Calculating the DOS for spherical quantum dot
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Graduate Silicon becomes a superconductor
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Undergrad Can Thermal Energy Break a Covalent Bond?
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Graduate Photoeffect and compton scattering
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Undergrad Is there a resource for the effective mass of electrons in common metals?
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Undergrad Are Holes and Positrons Essentially the Same Entity?
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Graduate What Is the Quantum Efficiency of Molybdenum and Tellurium for 5 eV Photons?
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Graduate Help Needed: Determining Rhodamine B Band Structure Experimentally
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Graduate Brownian Motion Calculation: Q&A on Greens Function & U Par/Perp @ z=0
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Undergrad Why is the conduction band lowered in Schottky diodes?
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Graduate Could you pls advise me any books where in detail is described Hydrogen atom
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Undergrad Binding energy and work function of a solid?
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Graduate Superconductors usable as propulsion devices?
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Undergrad What Do Condensed Matter Physicists Study?
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Graduate Energy Band Theory - Conduction & Valence Bands
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Undergrad Why do atoms prefer filled, half filled, or empty shells?
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Graduate Phase Transition: Entropy vs Pressure & Energy vs Volume
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Undergrad Yutirium barium copper oxide (YBCO)
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Graduate What is the latest research on High Tc Superconductivity?
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Graduate Are permittivities of non-ferroelectric materials dependent of temperature?
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Graduate Ozone Formation: Understand the Process with FS
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Undergrad Room Temperature Superconductors
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Graduate Sandia Res. Reveals Impact of "Metallic Water" on Neptune & Physics
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Graduate Is the BCS Theory Still Relevant in Modern Superconductivity Research?
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Graduate 2D Electrons in Out-of-Plane Magnetic Field: DOS & Collision Broadening
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Graduate Completely filled conduction band
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Undergrad Is the Atom Model Really Wrong?
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Graduate Does the Pauli Exclusion Principle Apply to Electrons in Metals?
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Graduate Degeneracy conduction electrons
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Undergrad Why Do Non-Mechanical Systems Like Batteries and LEDs Wear Out?
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Graduate Potential within a crystalline solid
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Graduate Solve HCP Packing C/A Ratio: Geometry & 1.67 Explained
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Graduate Miller-Bravais scheme for Hexagonal crystals
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Undergrad Which book is the best for a beginner of condensed matter physics ?
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Graduate Electrical Analogue Simulating a crystal Lattice
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High School Why does copper conduct heat better than aluminium and iron?
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