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What’s m0? Is it the mass of the electron?

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    Gerhard Klimeck

    m0 is the effective mass as measured against the free electron mass. 1 is a free electron 0.067 would be the effective mass of an electron in GaAs etc

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    1. Abhijeet Paul

      m0 is the free electron mass in vacuum. This changes when an electron is moving in a crystal under the influence of atomic effective potentials.

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