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...
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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...
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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...
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The crystal structure and symmetry play a critical role in determining many physical properties, such as cleavage, electronic band structure, and optical...
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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...
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molecular micro environments further broaden the structure to give smooth bands. Electronic transition bands of molecules may be from tens to several hundred...
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Afro-Asiatic language Korringa–Kohn–Rostoker method, a method used in electronic band structure calculations All pages with titles containing KKR This disambiguation...
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Fermi level (category Electronic band structures)
relates to electronic band structure in determining electronic properties; how it relates to the voltage and flow of charge in an electronic circuit—is...
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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...
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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...
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Tight binding (category Electronic band structures)
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...
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Semiconductor (redirect from Electronic Materials)
Pauli exclusion principle). These states are associated with the electronic band structure of the material. Electrical conductivity arises due to the presence...
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mean-field theory – Method to determine the electronic structure of strongly correlated materials Electronic band structure – Describes the range of energies of...
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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...
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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...
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Brillouin zone (category Electronic band structures)
Setyawan, Wahyu; Curtarolo, Stefano (2010). "High-throughput electronic band structure calculations: Challenges and tools". Computational Materials Science...
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Dirac cone (category Electronic band structures)
In physics, Dirac cones are features that occur in some electronic band structures that describe unusual electron transport properties of materials like...
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electrons (or less often Bloch Waves), underlies the concept of electronic band structures. These eigenstates are written with subscripts as ψ n k {\displaystyle...
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Surface states (category Electronic band structures)
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...
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In solid-state physics, band bending refers to the process in which the electronic band structure in a material curves up or down near a junction or interface...
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Density of states (category Electronic band structures)
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...
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that it has a lower concentration of Lewis acid sites. The bulk electronic band structure of transition metal oxides consists of overlapping 2p orbitals...
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Van Hove singularity (category Electronic band structures)
spectrum of a solid is most straightforwardly calculated from the electronic band structure using Fermi's Golden Rule where the relevant matrix element to...
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DFTB (category Electronic band structures)
The Density Functional Based Tight Binding method is an approximation to density functional theory, which reduces the Kohn-Sham equations to a form of...
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extrema ("valleys") in the electronic band structure. Certain semiconductors have multiple "valleys" in the electronic band structure of the first Brillouin...
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Korringa–Kohn–Rostoker method (category Electronic structure methods)
Korringa–Kohn–Rostoker (KKR) method is used to calculate the electronic band structure of periodic solids. In the derivation of the method using multiple...
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term semimetal has a more common usage as a specific kind of electronic band structure of a substance. In this context, only arsenic and antimony are...
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Energy gap (category Electronic band structures)
but also for insulators and metals the band structure—and thus any possible band gaps—govern their electronic properties. For superconductors the energy...
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Nearly free electron model (category Electronic band structures)
approximation. The model enables understanding and calculation of the electronic band structures, especially of metals. This model is an immediate improvement...
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traditional Japanese basket-weaving. This geometry induces a flat electronic band structure with Dirac crossings, in which the low-energy electron dynamics...
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