Material physics

Material physics

Material physics is the use of physics to describe materials in many different ways. It covers a number of related fields such as chemistry, solid mechanics, fluid dynamics, condensed matter, solid state physics, nuclear physics, quantum mechanics, quantum optics, plasma physics, and thermodynamics.

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R-center

Materials science; Material physics

One of many centers (e.g., F, M, N, etc.) arising out of different types of treatment to which a transparent crystal is subjected to rectify some defects in the form of absorption bands affecting its ...

equivalence principle

Materials science; Material physics

One of the basic assumptions of general relativity, that all physical systems cannot distinguish between an acceleration and a gravitational field.

optoelectronics

Materials science; Material physics

One of the fastest growing areas of modem technology which is key for much of the communications and information industries. It is based on the quantum phenomena describing the interaction of photons ...

body-centered cubic structure

Materials science; Material physics

One of the most common metallic structures. In the body-centered cubic structure, atoms are arranged in a cubes, and an additional atom is located at the center of each cube.

ionization chamber

Materials science; Material physics

One of the oldest instruments used in nuclear physics to detect charged particles. It consists of a chamber filled with a substance, usually in the form of a gas, which becomes ionized from the ...

Kadomtsev instability

Materials science; Material physics

One of the screw (or current convective) instabilities that occurs when an electric current flows through a magnetized fully ionized plasma having screw-shaped density perturbations. As a result of ...

Kadomtsev-Nedospasov instability

Materials science; Material physics

One of the screw (or current convective) instabilities that occurs when an electric current flows through a magnetized partially ionized plasma having screw-shaped density perturbations. Therefore, ...