DENSITY OF STATES

Definition A <DENSITY OF STATES> (DOS) is an <IndirectProperty> that he number of different states at a particular energy level that electrons are allowed to occupy, i.e. the number of electron states per unit volume per unit energy. It is calculated as rho(E) = n_E(E) = (dN(E)/dE).(1/V) where N(E) is the total number of states with energy less than E, and V is <VOLUME>