Periodic Potentials and Bandstructure: an Exercise

By Dragica Vasileska1; Gerhard Klimeck2

1. Arizona State University 2. Purdue University

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Abstract

This exercise teaches the students that in the case of strong coupling between the neighboring wells in square and Coulomb periodic potential wells electrons start to behave as free electrons and the gaps that open at the Brillouin zone boundaries become smaller and smaller (thus recovering the free particles dispersion relation).

 

 

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  • Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck (2008), "Periodic Potentials and Bandstructure: an Exercise," https://nanohub.org/resources/4851.

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