{"id":1138,"date":"2008-08-18T08:55:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T12:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2008-08-18T08:56:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T12:56:29","slug":"gap-band-redux-or-weird-moments-in-wikipedia-disambiguation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1138","title":{"rendered":"GAP Band Redux, or Weird Moments in Wikipedia Disambiguation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look up &#8220;GAP Band&#8221; on Wikipedia, and you&#8217;ll see &#8220;<em>Not to be confused with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Band_gap\"  title=\"Band gap\">band gap<\/a><\/em>,&#8221; beneath the headline.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Band gap&#8221;?? I took the bait:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solid_state_physics\"  class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Solid state physics\">solid state physics<\/a> and related applied fields, the <strong>band gap<\/strong>, also called an <strong>energy gap<\/strong> or <strong>stop band<\/strong>, is a region where a particle or <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quasiparticle\"  title=\"Quasiparticle\">quasiparticle<\/a> is forbidden from propagating. For <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electrical_insulation\"  class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Electrical insulation\">insulators<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semiconductor\"  title=\"Semiconductor\">semiconductors<\/a>, the band gap generally refers to the energy difference between the top of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valence_band\"  title=\"Valence band\">valence band<\/a> and the bottom of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conduction_band\"  title=\"Conduction band\">conduction band<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/gap-band-vs-band-gap.jpg\" title=\"Perfect clarity\u2026\" alt=\"Perfect clarity\u2026\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look up &#8220;GAP Band&#8221; on Wikipedia, and you&#8217;ll see &#8220;Not to be confused with band gap,&#8221; beneath the headline. &#8220;Band gap&#8221;?? I took the bait: In solid state physics and related applied fields, the band gap, also called an energy gap or stop band, is a region where a particle or quasiparticle is forbidden from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,46,66,8,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}