Talk:Effective mass
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This article says that an electron hole in silicon has effective mass around 1.00me. But Electron hole says it's typically about 0.36me. Which is closer to the true value ?
- 0.36 -- Tim Starling 08:57, Jan 17, 2004 (UTC)
This article uses the density of states effective mass, while the other article you mention just uses the heavy hole effective mass. It might be good to add a few paragraphs to distinguish these. Also, to my eye, the effective mass quoted for electrons in GaAs in this article is just plain wrong... Am I missing something?
This article uses the density of states effective mass, while the other article you mention just uses the heavy hole effective mass. It might be good to add a few paragraphs to distinguish these. Also, to my eye, the effective mass quoted for electrons in GaAs in this article is just plain wrong... Am I missing something?
[edit] More theory needed
This article could use some discussion about how effective masses are calculated theoretically (e.g. k.p method), but I am not the person to write it. Alison Chaiken 20:03, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Incorrect effective masses reported
I'm also confused by some of the reported effective mass values. According to the reference book: Madelung, Otfried (ed.), Semiconductors--Basic Data (rev. 2nd ed.), Springer, 1996 ...electron and hole effective masses in ZnO are 0.24-0.28 and 0.59, respectively. Should effective masses used for DOS calculations be different somehow? Willtiz 06:19, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
