きんせいたい

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of きんせいたい – see the following entry.

【禁制帯】 [noun] (physics) valence band; a highest range of electron energies in an insulator or semiconductor that can be populated; it corresponds to the valence electrons of the constituent atoms

(This term, きんせいたい (kinseitai), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)