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band gap

[′band ‚gap]
(solid-state physics)
An energy difference between two allowed bands of electron energy in a metal.
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bandgap

In a material, the energy difference between its non-conductive state and its conductive state. There is virtually no bandgap in most metals, but a very large one in an insulator (dielectric). In a semiconductor, the bandgap is small. Technically, the bandgap is the energy it takes to move electrons from the valence band to the conduction band.
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Particularly crystalline semiconductors with definite energy band gap are required in developing various electronic devices.
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"In addition, by simply modifying the width of the graphene strips between the pores (the number of carbon atoms), this band gap can be controlled.
It can be seen from Figure 6 that the GaN FE and DBE emissions exhibit obvious red shift with increasing temperature, indicating the reduction of the band gap of GaN layer.
In this section, dependence of the band gap (BG) of the infinitely thick ML-UR on the host dielectric material [[epsilon].sub.r] is presented.
Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) spectra were acquired on a PerkinElmer Lambda 35 spectrophotometer with an integration sphere with a resolution of [+ or -]1nm; from the reflectance spectra, the Kubelka-Munk function was determined and the band gap energy was estimated [12, 13].
Depth profiles from SIMS and AES were used to compare the compositional distributions and to determine the band gap in the CIGS solar cells.
It has band gap of 1.53 eV that match to optimal spectra (1.39eV) and large absorption coefficient [alpha]=1x105 cm-1.
It is shown that, the occurrence of vacancies induces an increase of density of high-energy occupied states and the band gap modification is obtained.
The cadmium zinc sulfide (CdZnS) thin film is one of the promising materials which is used as a wide band gap (larger than 2.5 eV) window material in hetrojunction solar cells and in photoconductive devices.
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