Abstract
The periodic potential distribution of an electron in a crystal shown in Fig. 2.4 involves N discrete levels if the crystal contains N atoms, as we have seen in Fig. 2.8. A discussion of these levels can be confined to the first Brillouin zone. We saw in the last chapter that due to the crystal periodicity, the electron wave functions, which in one dimension are ψ(x) = u (x) exp (i k x), also have to be periodic {Bloch functions).
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Seeger, K. (1985). Semiconductor Statistics. In: Semiconductor Physics. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02445-4_3
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