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Anonymous @ 03:30 PM on 18 Sep, 2008
What’s m0? Is it the mass of the electron?
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Gerhard Klimeck @ 09:01 AM on 24 Sep, 2008
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
Abhijeet Paul @ 05:05 PM on 11 Nov, 2008
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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Gerhard Klimeck @ 09:01 AM on 24 Sep, 2008
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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Abhijeet Paul @ 05:05 PM on 11 Nov, 2008
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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