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... impurity interaction shows any striking temperature dependence . Thus at sufficiently low temperatures impurity scattering will be the dominant source of collisions in any real specimen . This scattering will be elastic provided that ...
... impurity interaction shows any striking temperature dependence . Thus at sufficiently low temperatures impurity scattering will be the dominant source of collisions in any real specimen . This scattering will be elastic provided that ...
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... impurity were not embedded in the semiconductor , but in empty space , the binding energy of the electron would just be the first ionization potential of the impurity atom , 9.81 eV for arsenic . However ( and this is of crucial ...
... impurity were not embedded in the semiconductor , but in empty space , the binding energy of the electron would just be the first ionization potential of the impurity atom , 9.81 eV for arsenic . However ( and this is of crucial ...
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Neil W. Ashcroft, N. David Mermin. POPULATION OF IMPURITY LEVELS IN THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM To assess the extent to which carriers can be thermally excited from impurity levels , we must compute the mean number of electrons in the levels at ...
Neil W. Ashcroft, N. David Mermin. POPULATION OF IMPURITY LEVELS IN THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM To assess the extent to which carriers can be thermally excited from impurity levels , we must compute the mean number of electrons in the levels at ...
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The Drude Theory of Metals | 1 |
The Sommerfeld Theory of Metals | 29 |
Failures of the Free Electron Model | 57 |
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