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Energy bands


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    • Bands (Solid state electronics)
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    • found: Work cat.: Brandhorst, H.W. Impurity profile and energy band diagram for the cuprous sulfide-cadmium sulfide heterojunction, 1969.
    • found: Chambers dict. sci. tech., 1999:p. 399-400 ("energy band - (Phys) - One of the bands of allowed energies separated by forbidden regions which arise in a solid when the energy levels of the individual atoms combine. The individual atoms are considered to belong to the crystal as a whole rather than to a particular atom. The energy bands are the consequence of the motion of the electron in the periodic potential of the crystal lattice ...")
    • found: Encyc. phys. sci. tech., 2002:v. 5, p. 307 (under chapter, Electrons in solids, "Energy bands - The allowed energies for electrons in solids lying in a series of allowed bands separated by forbidden bands")
    • found: McGraw-Hill dict. sci. tech. terms, 1994:p. 186 ("band ... (solid state) - A restricted range in which the energies of electrons in solids lie, or from which they are excluded, as understood in quantum-mechanical terms. Also known as energy bands")
    • found: Electrical engr. handbk, 1997:p. 501 (in chapter, Semiconductors, "Energy bands. In crystalline semiconductors atoms are arranged in periodic arrays known as crystalline lattices ... As a consequence of this periodic arrangement, the allowed energy levels of electrons are grouped into energy bands ...")
    • notfound: IEEE 100 : the authoritative dictionary of IEEE standards terms, 2000
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    • 2002-10-01: new
    • 2003-01-17: revised
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