solid-state physics
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- noun
- /ˈsɒlɪd steɪt ˈfɪzɪks/
- Specialized
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física del estado sólido
- Many innovations in technology stem from breakthroughs in solid-state physics and material science.
Time Crystals sounds like something from Hogwarts, but it's actually solid-state physics.
- Time Crystals sounds like something from Hogwarts, but it's actually solid-state physics.
Examples
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I served as chairman of the division of condensed matter physics when most of us still thought of it as solid-state physics.
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He performed his thesis research at ORNL's solid-state physics division, where he used magnetic susceptibility techniques to study radiation damage and the effective masses of electrons and holes in semiconductors.
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That's where you need solid-state physics folks to figure out how to make them small, how to make them fast.
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And it also proved that there is at least some realm in which nuclear physics and solid-state physics affect each other.
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Roman Maev, who holds the university's industrial research chair in applied solid-state physics and materials characterization, has been working on the use of sound waves to look into materials and display the results as an easy-to-read image on a computer screen.
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I was sitting in Robert Rasera's solid state physics class, and he was lecturing on surfaces (for geometric reasons, the physics of edges and middles are different).
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On another question in solid-state physics, Teller and coworkers Robert Sachs and Russell Lyddane posited a general rule that has broad applications for ferroelectricity and other fields.
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Techniques developed decades ago for nuclear magnetic resonance and now adapted for the IR, visible, and UV regions of the spectrum are enabling new insights into chemical kinetics and solid-state physics.
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The study of solid-state physics is essential for understanding how materials conduct electricity.
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In the laboratory, we conducted experiments related to solid-state physics to observe the behavior of semiconductors.
Synonyms
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The study of matter, energy, and how they interact
Surface Forms
Morphology
solid-state + physics
The phrase denotes the physics of materials in the solid state and is directly built from 'solid' (a state of matter) + 'state' (condition/form) + 'physics' (the study of matter and energy). Although somewhat technical, the composition is transparent and mirrors common cross-linguistic patterns (e.g. 'física del estado sólido'), so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Solid-state physics comes from the idea of studying the solid state of matter, where tiny particles stay in fixed positions instead of moving like a liquid or gas. That's why the phrase now means the branch of physics that studies how solid materials behave with electricity, magnets and light.