Round 4: Tossup 1

A quantity describing these entities scales with one over width for zigzag nanostructures and one over width squared for armchair nanostructures. The K-points of the Brillouin (“bree-WANN”) zones of TMDCs host the edges of these entities. These entities exhibit linearly dispersing Dirac spectra when their interfaces form non-smooth Dirac arcs, circles, nodes, or cones. In the tight-binding formalism, these structures are computed using a generalization of LCAO. These theoretical entities arise (-5[1])in the continuum limit of infinitely many adjacent atomic orbitals. The position of the Fermi level relative to these entities distinguishes conductors from insulators; (10[1])for insulators, the energy gap (10[1])between these entities is large. (10[1])For 10 points, name these allowed energy levels of semiconductors (10[1])that include their “conduction” and “valence” types. (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[4])

ANSWER: electronic bands [or energy bands or electronic band structure; accept band gap; accept valence band or conduction band; prompt on energy levels until read]
<JHU A, Physics> | Packet E - Chicago A, Toronto B, Brandeis B, JHU A
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