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Undergrad Thin Film Thickness: Estimating Using Transmittance & Reflectance
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Undergrad Are Triple Points and Critical Points Theoretical or Observable in Real Life?
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Undergrad Is it possible to make a semiconductor at home?
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Undergrad How can powder resistivity be measured with 4-point probe?
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Undergrad Should diatomic gas be regarded as ideal gas?
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Undergrad How to tell if its a metal or a semiconductor
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Undergrad How should doped silicon wafers be handled?
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Undergrad Do natural diamonds form from carbon-vapour or liquid-carbon
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Undergrad What is the Mass of Ionized Hydrogen in Stars and How Does it Affect Pressure?
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Undergrad Why don't metals bond when touched together?
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Undergrad What happens if a P-type wafer touches an N-type?
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Undergrad Sonoluminescence works as an LED possibly?
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Undergrad Band Gap of Semiconductor Materials
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Undergrad Why Do Electrons Jump into the Conduction Band in Semiconductors?
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Undergrad Graphene Nobel winners discover new property of graphene
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Undergrad Understanding the concept of Polar and Non-Polar Semiconductors
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Undergrad Heating & Electrical Resistance
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Undergrad Benefits of Nitrogen in Venting UHV Systems?
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Undergrad Calculating electron and hole population in a semiconductor
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Undergrad Compression of air, and its mass density
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Undergrad Energy levels and hydrogen atom
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Undergrad Dispersion relation (particle in a box)
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Undergrad Forming an Excimer - Explaining the Process for Xenon
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Undergrad Hydrogen - The Mysterious Anomaly
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Undergrad Semiconductors valence and energy bands
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Undergrad PN Junctions vs Transistors When Building Logic Gates
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Undergrad What is the range of optical frequecy?
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Undergrad Why do doped semiconductors have a decreased band gap?
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Undergrad Silicon: The Key to Solar Panel Efficiency & Why Carbon Isn't Used
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Undergrad Why diamond is a hardest structure
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Undergrad Understanding the Clausius Clapeyron Relation: Explained Simply
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Undergrad Can UV Light Be Converted into Visible Light?
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Undergrad Magnetic Levitation: Design w/ Neodymium & Electric Magnets
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Undergrad Electron speed and movement through a copper wire
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Undergrad Calculating Bandgaps Experimentally
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Undergrad Problem of formula Hall constant
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Undergrad What happens when external magnetic field is applied to ferromagnetic materials?
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Undergrad Complete List of 230 Space Groups in CSV Format for Easy Access
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Undergrad Difference between X-ray Diffraction techniques and Raman spectroscopy
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Undergrad Emission Spectrum: Color Lines & Atomic Orbital Band
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Undergrad Why is there no current in a reversed biased diode?
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Undergrad Semiconductor Notation: P-Type, N-Type Band Gap Materials
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Undergrad Representing Continuous Space in a Computer: Managing Lattices and Accuracy
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Undergrad Can Brownian Motion Suspend Larger Particles in a Denser Fluid?
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Undergrad Understanding the Rule of Delta E = A/r^12 - B/r^6 in Physics Crystallography
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Undergrad Interaction of matter and radiation
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Undergrad Curie temperature, reversible process
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Undergrad What Is the Most Current Model in Solid State Physics?
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Undergrad How Can Empty Space Comprise Most of Our Mass?
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Undergrad Are subatomic particles spherical?
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Undergrad Internal Energy Change: Confusion Cleared Up
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Undergrad Verifying my understanding of solar cells and semiconductors
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Undergrad A photon absorption/emission by an atom
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Undergrad Kinetic energy compared to energy making up mass
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Undergrad Reverse Bias in P-N Junctions: Why Don't Electrons Diffuse Back?
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Undergrad A question on p-n junction depletion layer
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Undergrad Measuring the focal length of a deformable lens
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Undergrad Why Does Rb87 Decay to Sr87, Not Rb85?
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Undergrad Make Solid State Electrostatic Oscillator?
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Undergrad Why Do Electrons Determine Atom Volume While Nucleons Account for Mass?
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Undergrad Why is Bohr's model of an atom limited to explaining only the hydrogen spectrum?
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Undergrad How is Wavenumber related to visible lines in the Hydrogen spectrum?
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Undergrad Bohr's atomic model and Bohr and Rydberg equations
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Undergrad Reading Hamiltonian (.HSX) files in SIESTA
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Undergrad Band Offset Explained: What is Band Offset?
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Undergrad Softness of Transition Metals Au, Ag, and Pd
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Undergrad Calculating energy change (rydberg?)
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Undergrad What is the significance of crystal momentum?
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Undergrad Solid Helium: Why No Images? | Feynman Lectures Vol.1
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Undergrad Find the equilibrium separation between two materials
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Undergrad Working of Photovoltaic Device (Solar Cell)
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Undergrad Stainless steel crystal structure
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Undergrad Understand PN Junction Diode: Diffusion & Electrons
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Undergrad Comparison between metals and semiconductors
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Undergrad Understanding Newton's 2nd Law & Drude Assumption for Conductivity
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Undergrad Spectroscopy: clarification about doppler shift
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Undergrad Why is raman effect weaker than Rayleigh
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Undergrad What Determines the Fermi Energy in Solids?
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Undergrad Molecular Orbital Theory Question about bonding/antibonding orbitals
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Undergrad Understanding Fermi Level in Silicon: Valence and Conduction Bands Explained
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Undergrad Triboelectric Effect: Atoms Affinity & Electron Attraction
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Undergrad What does an 2H- in front of a chemical symbol mean? (i.e. 2H-MoX_2)
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Undergrad Microscopic properties of electrical resistance
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Undergrad Can graphene work in outer space?
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Undergrad Improving vacuum system efficiency?
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Undergrad Band spectrum and line spectrum
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Undergrad Why don't electron go into the next orbit during stimulated emission?
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Undergrad Why do snowflakes form unique shapes?
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Undergrad Layman understanding Atom movement with added energy
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Undergrad Can Any Molecular Crystal Be Used in Bragg's X-Ray Spectrometer?
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Undergrad What is Correlation Length and How is it Related to Surface Roughness?
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Undergrad Can you explain Fermi levels to me?
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Undergrad Maximum ionization of free elements
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Undergrad X-ray diffraction or reflection?
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Undergrad Why isn't chromium's electron configuration 2, 8, 12, 2?
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Undergrad Do molecules have intrinsic magnetic fields?
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Undergrad Total Energy of 2 Photons from Positron-Electron Boom
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Undergrad Welcome to the P-n Junction Inquiry
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Undergrad SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device)
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Undergrad Density of States: Definition & Explanation
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