Definition & Meaning | English word WAVEVECTOR

Definitions of WAVEVECTOR

1. Alternative spelling of wave vector.

Examples of Using WAVEVECTOR in a Sentence

• In solid-state physics, the "wavevector" (also called k-vector) of an electron or hole in a crystal is the wavevector of its quantum-mechanical wavefunction.
• Another method for visualizing band structure is to plot a constant-energy isosurface in wavevector space, showing all of the states with energy equal to a particular value.
• As an example within the AMM and DMM models, given two materials A and B, if material A has a low population (or no population) of phonons with certain k value, there will be very few phonons of that wavevector (or equivalently, frequency) to propagate from A to B.
• The compressional wave solutions used in the electromagnetic cloaking are transferred to material fluidic solutions where fluid motion is parallel to the wavevector.
• Fresnel had already derived the equation for the wavevector surface in 1823, and André-Marie Ampère rederived it in 1828.

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