In solid-state physics, the electronic band structure (or simply band structure) of a solid describes the range of energy levels that electrons may have...

lowest range of vacant electronic states. On a graph of the electronic band structure of a semiconducting material, the valence band is located below the...

a band gap, also called a bandgap or energy gap, is an energy range in a solid where no electronic states exist. In graphs of the electronic band structure...

The crystal structure and symmetry play a critical role in determining many physical properties, such as cleavage, electronic band structure, and optical...

crystals, electronic band structure calculations lead to an effective mass for the electrons that is typically negative at the top of a band. The negative...

communication Band cell, a type of white blood cell Bird banding, placing a numbered metal band on a bird's leg for identification Electronic band structure of electrons...

frequency can be doubled. an electronic band structure with direct energy gaps, where both conduction and valence band edges are located at the non-equivalent...

Afro-Asiatic language Korringa–Kohn–Rostoker method, a method used in electronic band structure calculations All pages with titles containing KKR This disambiguation...

molecular micro environments further broaden the structure to give smooth bands. Electronic transition bands of molecules may be from tens to several hundred...

relates to electronic band structure in determining electronic properties; how it relates to the voltage and flow of charge in an electronic circuit—is...

tight-binding model (or TB model) is an approach to the calculation of electronic band structure using an approximate set of wave functions based upon superposition...

traditional Japanese basket-weaving. This geometry induces a flat electronic band structure with Dirac crossings, in which the low-energy electron dynamics...

with an atom Valence and conduction bands, as a conduction band electron relative to the electronic band structure of a solid Fermi gas, as a particle...

Pauli exclusion principle). These states are associated with the electronic band structure of the material. Electrical conductivity arises due to the presence...

that it has a lower concentration of Lewis acid sites. The bulk electronic band structure of transition metal oxides consists of overlapping 2p orbitals...

mean-field theory – Method to determine the electronic structure of strongly correlated materials Electronic band structure – Describes the range of energies of...

that create Van der Waals forces) to retain the two-dimensional electronic band structure of isolated graphene. A normal silicon wafer coated with a layer...

In physics, Dirac cones are features that occur in some electronic band structures that describe unusual electron transport properties of materials like...

extrema ("valleys") in the electronic band structure. Certain semiconductors have multiple "valleys" in the electronic band structure of the first Brillouin...

electrons (or less often Bloch Waves), underlies the concept of electronic band structures. These eigenstates are written with subscripts as ψ n k {\displaystyle...

change of the electronic band structure from the bulk material to the vacuum. In the weakened potential at the surface, new electronic states can be formed...

bending. Rather, band bending refers to the local changes in electronic structure, in the energy offset of a semiconductor's band structure near a junction...

modeling of various physical processes in materials such as phonons, Electronic band structure and elastostatics. The MSGF method is a relatively new GF technique...

Cooper, David L.; Gerratt, Joseph; Raimondi, Mario (1986). "The electronic structure of the benzene molecule". Nature. 323 (6090): 699. Bibcode:1986Natur...

but also for insulators and metals the band structure—and thus any possible band gaps—govern their electronic properties. For superconductors the energy...

doctoral dissertation, titled "de Haas-van Alphen effect and electronic band structure of nickel", under the supervision of Royal Stark. He remarked...

Setyawan, Wahyu; Curtarolo, Stefano (2010). "High-throughput electronic band structure calculations: Challenges and tools". Computational Materials Science...

dispersion relation for electrons in a solid is given by the electronic band structure. The kinetic energy of a particle depends on the magnitude and...

spectrum of a solid is most straightforwardly calculated from the electronic band structure using Fermi's Golden Rule where the relevant matrix element to...

paramagnetic. When no external field is applied, the antiferromagnetic structure corresponds to a vanishing total magnetization. In an external magnetic...