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Band alignment
Band alignment, also called band lineup, describes the relative positions of conduction- and valence-band edges where two semiconductors meet, and comes in three types: straddling, staggered, and broken gap.
Band Baaja Baaraat (बैंड बाजा बारात)
Band Baaja Baaraat (बैंड बाजा बारात), also called Wedding Planners, is a 2010 Yash Raj Films Hindi rom-com, Maneesh Sharma's directorial debut and Ranveer Singh's acting debut with Anushka Sharma, about Delhi wedding planners; it won six IIFA 2011 awards.
Band bending
Band bending is the change in electron energy levels with distance from an interface in a semiconductor, caused by electric potential in the space charge region.
Band brake
A band brake is a friction brake in which a flexible band wraps around a rotating drum and is tightened to slow it, common on Japanese utility bicycles.
Band convergence in lead telluride thermoelectrics
Band convergence in lead telluride thermoelectrics is a band-structure engineering strategy that aligns PbTe's two topmost valence bands, raising valley degeneracy and the figure of merit zT.
Band convergence in thermoelectrics
Band convergence in thermoelectrics is a band-structure strategy that aligns band edges to raise carrier concentration and power factor, though it fails when bands converge at a single k-point.
Band gap
The band gap is the range of energies between a crystal's valence and conduction bands where no electron states exist, determining whether a solid conducts.
Band Geeks
Band Geeks is a 2001 SpongeBob SquarePants season 2 episode (35b, with The Secret Box) in which Squidward's chaotic marching band triumphs at the Bubble Bowl performing David Glen Eisley's Sweet Victory; it is the series' highest-rated episode and spawned the 2019 Super Bowl petition.
Band I
Band I is the lowest VHF television broadcasting band, 41-68 MHz in the European broadcasting area under the ITU ST61 plan, prone to long-distance sporadic-E interference and largely abandoned for broadcasting.
Band Melam
Band Melam (బ్యాండ్ మేళం) is a 2026 Telugu romantic drama directed by Sathish Javvaji, starring Harsh Roshan and Sridevi Apalla (the Court pair) as village cousins Giri and Raji; produced by Kona Venkat, released 26 March 2026, streaming on Zee5.
Band model (hyperbolic geometry)
The band model is a conformal model of the hyperbolic plane drawn as an infinite horizontal strip, obtained from the Poincaré disk model and analogous to the Mercator projection.
Band of Brothers (book)
Band of Brothers (1992) is Stephen E. Ambrose's oral-history account of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne, from Normandy to Berchtesgaden, based on interviews begun at a 1988 New Orleans reunion and the basis of HBO's 2001 miniseries.
Band of Brothers (miniseries)
Band of Brothers, a 2001 HBO ten-part World War II miniseries adapted from Stephen Ambrose's 1992 book, produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg; follows Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne, cost a then-record $125 million, and won 7 Emmys and a Golden Globe.
Band of Gypsys
Band of Gypsys: 1970 live album by Jimi Hendrix with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles, recorded at Fillmore East on January 1, 1970, released March 25, 1970 on Capitol; his only authorized live album and last released in his lifetime.
Band of Gypsys (band)
Band of Gypsys: 1969-1970 Jimi Hendrix power trio with Billy Cox (bass) and Buddy Miles (drums), distinct from the Jimi Hendrix Experience; played four Fillmore East shows and released the funk-driven live album Band of Gypsys (1970).
Band of Horses
Band of Horses: American indie rock band formed 2004 in Seattle by Ben Bridwell after Carissa's Wierd; albums Everything All the Time (2006, Sub Pop, "The Funeral") through Things Are Great (2022), based in South Carolina.
Band of Robbers
Band of Robbers: 2015 American crime comedy by Aaron and Adam Nee reimagining Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as adults; Kyle Gallner, Adam Nee, Melissa Benoist; released January 15, 2016.
Band on the Run (song)
"Band on the Run" is a 1973 song by Paul and Linda McCartney, title track of the Wings album Band on the Run. Released as a single in April 1974, it topped the Billboard Hot 100 and won a 1975 Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus.
Band society
Band society: small kin-based hunter-gatherer group, also called a band, of roughly 20–50 people; egalitarian, nomadic, no formal leadership; smallest type in Service's band-tribe-chiefdom-state scheme.
Band-Aid
Band-Aid is an American brand of adhesive bandage, invented in 1920 by Johnson & Johnson cotton buyer Earle Dickson and marketed from 1921 as the first self-applied dressing.
Band-e Kaisar (بند قیصر)
Band-e Kaisar (Pol-e Kaisar, Bridge of Valerian) is an ancient Roman-built bridge dam across the Karun at Shushtar, Iran, built in the 3rd century AD.
Band-Maid (バンドメイド)
Band-Maid (バンドメイド) is a five-piece all-female Japanese hard rock band formed in Tokyo in 2013, known for maid-café costumes, fans called masters and princesses, albums like Epic Narratives, and the 2026 world tour ending at Nippon Budokan.
Band-pass filter
A band-pass filter is a filter that passes signals with frequencies inside a chosen band and attenuates those below and above it, used in radio tuning and communications receivers.
Band-stop filter
A band-stop filter, also called a band-reject or band-elimination filter, attenuates frequencies in a stopband between two cutoff frequencies while passing all others; a narrow version is a notch filter.
Band-to-band tunneling
Band-to-band tunneling, also called Zener tunneling, is a quantum process in which electrons tunnel directly between a semiconductor's valence and conduction bands under a strong electric field.
Banda
Banda is a Regional Mexican music style of brass-and-percussion ensembles that originated in rural Sinaloa, Mexico, with 9 to 15 musicians playing clarinets, trumpets, trombones, tuba, and drums.
Banda Aceh
Banda Aceh, capital and largest city of Indonesia's Aceh province (Serambi Mekkah), former seat of the Aceh Sultanate, renamed Kutaraja under Dutch rule, devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, rebuilt with Sharia-law status and tsunami mitigation works.
Banda Bahadur's campaign in Punjab
Banda Bahadur's campaign in Punjab (बंदा बहादुर का अभियान) was the Khalsa uprising Banda Singh Bahadur led against the Mughals from 1709, taking Sirhind in 1710.
Banda el Recodo
Banda El Recodo (Banda Sinaloense El Recodo de Cruz Lizárraga), "La Madre de Todas las Bandas," is a Mexican banda sinaloense founded in 1938 by clarinetist Cruz Lizárraga in El Recodo, Sinaloa; first performed abroad in Los Angeles in 1962 and is a multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy winner.
Banda Gorda
Banda Gorda is a Dominican merengue orchestra founded and led by trumpeter José Peña Suazo in 1994, among the most popular merengue groups of the 1990s.