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Brillouin zone

primitive cell in the reciprocal space lattice of crystals
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Brillouin zone

Summary

Brillouin zone ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (268 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Léon Brillouin is named after Brillouin zone[2].
  • Brillouin zone's subclass of is recorded as primitive cell[3].
  • Brillouin zone's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02q7l1[4].
  • Brillouin zone's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0012280[5].
  • Brillouin zone's studied by is recorded as solid-state physics[6].
  • Brillouin zone's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1883759[7].
  • Brillouin zone's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 16291881[8].
  • Brillouin zone's National Library of Poland MMS ID is recorded as 9811301951505606[9].
  • Brillouin zone's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3880709[10].
  • Brillouin zone's Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica ID is recorded as zona-di-brillouin[11].
  • Brillouin zone's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C16291881[12].

Why It Matters

Brillouin zone ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (268 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

Léon Brillouin

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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