Charge Transport and Scattering Processes in the Many-Valley Model

  • Karlheinz Seeger
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Abstract

In Sect. 2.4, Figs. 2.26, 27, we saw that the conduction bands of silicon and germanium have constant energy surfaces near the band edge which are either 8 half-ellipsoids or 6 ellipsoids of revolution; these correspond to 4 and 6 energy valleys, respectively. In these and many other semiconductors the many-valley model of the energy bands has proved to be a fruitful concept for a description of the observed anisotropy of electrical and optical phenomena. Cyclotron resonance (Sect. 11.11) provides a direct experimental determination of the effective masses in each valley for any crystallographic direction.

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Charge Transport Central Valley Gunn Diode Ionize Impurity Scattering Momentum Relaxation Time 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Karlheinz Seeger
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  1. 1.ViennaAustria
  2. 2.Institut für Materialphysik der UniversitätViennaAustria

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