binding energy

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They found that the exciton binding energy is one-quarter of the transport bandgap, irrespective of the materials involved.

From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024

Both materials have semiconducting properties like silicon, but unlike silicon, they can also withstand high temperatures and radiation because of their wide electronic bandgap and high atomic binding energy.

From Scientific American • Oct. 23, 2023

To counteract this issue, the CityU team introduced an innovative solution: anchoring the SAM onto an inherently stable nickel oxide surface, thereby enhancing the SAM's binding energy on the substrate.

From Science Daily • Oct. 20, 2023

And with a binding energy of just 8.6 kJ/mol, it must be chilled to about –100°C to store its maximum amount of hydrogen.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 27, 2023

There were no acceleration dampers, no temporal compensators, no autopilot, no four-space computer, and the primaries operated on nuclear rather than binding energy.

From The Lani People by Bone, Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin)