dispersive
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This dramatic disparity between electron and hole-carrier transport is attributed to spatially separated electronic states near the Fermi level, which consists of dispersive and flat bands.
From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2024
Some of the samples were analyzed using a FEI Scios dual-beam focused ion beam/scanning electronic microscope equipped with an energy dispersive spectrometer.
From Salon • Feb. 8, 2024
In the dispersive model, both copies of DNA have double-stranded segments of parental DNA and newly synthesized DNA interspersed.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
In the early 1990s, Bourgain launched the modern era for dispersive, nonlinear partial differential equations.
From Nature • Feb. 5, 2019
These effects are due to the difference in dispersive power of the powder and the liquid.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
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