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To: Boomer

She is not an MD she has a PhD in psychology. She knows nothing about graphene.


60 posted on 08/18/2021 4:51:07 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

Graphene is a zero-gap semiconductor, because its conduction and valence bands meet at the Dirac points. The Dirac points are six locations in momentum space, on the edge of the Brillouin zone, divided into two non-equivalent sets of three points. The two sets are labeled K and K’. The sets give graphene a valley degeneracy of gv = 2. By contrast, for traditional semiconductors the primary point of interest is generally Γ, where momentum is zero. Four electronic properties separate it from other condensed matter systems.


72 posted on 08/18/2021 5:25:55 PM PDT by HandyDandy
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