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Grenada
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Hi!
I'm new here...
I'm going to go right to the point. I know that when you take atoms and get them closer together, the discrete energy levels turn into bands. But when I'm facing a band structure plot, such as this one (band structure of aluminum nitride in wurtzite structure):
[PLAIN]http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/8397/image7bp.png [Broken]
Is there a way for me to say that this line corresponds, for example, to the 2p states, and this other line corresponds to the 3s states?
Namely: how can I read such a plot, and find the correspondance between the electronic configurations of the atoms involved, and the energy bands I see?
Thanks a lot, I'm getting confused here!
I'm new here...
I'm going to go right to the point. I know that when you take atoms and get them closer together, the discrete energy levels turn into bands. But when I'm facing a band structure plot, such as this one (band structure of aluminum nitride in wurtzite structure):
[PLAIN]http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/8397/image7bp.png [Broken]
Is there a way for me to say that this line corresponds, for example, to the 2p states, and this other line corresponds to the 3s states?
Namely: how can I read such a plot, and find the correspondance between the electronic configurations of the atoms involved, and the energy bands I see?
Thanks a lot, I'm getting confused here!
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