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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shear rate

Materials science; Material physics

Rate of fluid deformation given by the velocity gradient du/dy. Also called strain rate and deformation rate.

resonant scattering

Materials science; Material physics

Scattering of a photon by an atom or nucleus or, in general, a microscopic system, in which the system first absorbs the photon by undergoing a transition from one of its energy states to another ...

Thomson scattering

Materials science; Material physics

Scattering of electromagnetic radiation by free (or loosely bound) particles.

depolarization

Materials science; Material physics

Scattering of nucleons from nucleons (spin 1/2 on spin 1/2 hadronic scattering) can be parameterized in terms of nine variables, but at any given scattering angle only four of these are independent ...

sublattices

Materials science; Material physics

Sections of the primitive cell of a crystal. For instance, the Si lattice can be viewed as consisting of two interpenetrating face-centered cubic sublattices displaced along the body diagonal by ...

Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin method (WKB method)

Materials science; Material physics

Semi-classical approximation of quantum wave functions and energy levels based on an expansion of the wave function in powers of Planck's constant.

heterostructure lasers

Materials science; Material physics

Semiconductor lasers which are made of heterojunctions. A heterojunction is made of layers of two different types of materials which are doped by p and n types of atoms. For example, layers of n and ...