Peter Debye - Eponyms

Eponyms

• Debye shielding – In plasmas, semiconductors and electrolytes, the process by which a fixed electric charge is shielded by redistributing mobile charged particles around it.
• Debye length – The typical distance in a plasma required for full Debye shielding.
• Debye model – A model of the heat capacity of solids as a function of temperature
• Debye – a unit of electric dipole moment
• Debye relaxation – The dielectric relaxation response of an ideal, noninteracting population of dipoles to an alternating external electric field.
• Debye sheath – The non-neutral layer, several Debye lengths thick, where a plasma contacts a material surface.
• Debye-Hückel equation – A method of calculating activity coefficients
• Debye function – A function used in the calculation of heat capacity.
• Debye-Scherrer method – A technique used in x-ray powder diffraction.
• Debye-Waller factor – A measure of disorder in a crystal lattice.
• 30852 Debye – A minor planet (originally named 1991 TR6).
• Lorenz-Mie-Debye theory Theory of light scattering by a spherical particle.
• Debye (crater) – A lunar crater located on the far side and in the northern hemisphere of the moon.