Talk:Valence band

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  1. Organise the article into sections
  • Perhaps some applications etc.
  1. Gather some references from books or journals
  2. Resize and position the picture in a better location

This article told me nothing at all about what I wanted (brought here from Holographic memory).

I've edited the Holographic memory article to hopefully address this problem--Tiresais 16:21, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Zero temperature? Don't you mean ground level or else their basic orbital shell?

I think it was meant to mean absolute zero, but I don't know enough on the topic to change it. --Snaxe920 07:51, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm not quite sure either, I presume it would be the Valence band since it takes energy for electrons to move into the Conductance band. At Absolute zero they have minimal internal energy. Editing now--Tiresais 07:58, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

I think it might be worth merging the Valence band and Conduction band articles together, since there is a fair bit of overlap. Arch 10:36, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

   I second  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.60.83.241 (talk) 18:42, 1 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Why stating that there is no band gap between the valence and conductive bands in metals?

See the article Semiconductor - there is a picture of energy levels of Mn cleary showing the gaps. It comes from solving the problem about the dispersion law in solids. We do not count any properties of material, and still have band gaps. Cramur (talk) 00:39, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reference and Stub tags

This article needs references and citations for its sources of material. Its current form is lacking organization for its material. It badly needs expansion, re-organization, some verifiable sources. The reference and stub tags have been placed on this article. Venny85 19:04, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I probably shouldn't have deleted the unreferenced tag. The stub tag was properly deleted, though. This article is beyond stub length. Per WP:STUB, a "stub" is an article containing only a few sentences of text. Once an article gets beyond stub length (certainly by the time it fills a full screen), the stub tag should be removed.--Srleffler (talk) 23:54, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
As a general rule, I find editing programs that consist of adding tags like {{unreferenced}} to large numbers of articles are not very helpful. Most Wikipedia articles lack references, and even the ones that have a few references could use more. The unreferenced tag is best used to flag articles where there is a particular need for references. If one is adding this tag to many articles rapidly, the time would probably be better spent actually working on improving one of those articles instead.--Srleffler (talk) 23:57, 6 April 2008 (UTC)