Abstract
A cubic dispersion equation is obtained for the deformation of diamond-like semiconductor crystals in terms of a six-band Kane model (for the valence bands Γ7 and Γ8), which provides a good description of the structure of the valence band for energies much less than the band gap.
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Pedagogical Institute, Ternopol. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 7, pp. 93–98, July, 1994.
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Chopik, A.V., Shtivel'man, K.Y., Gritsyuk, P.M. et al. Kane equation for deformed diamond-like crys-talline semiconductors. Russ Phys J 37, 677–681 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00559203
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00559203