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Chapter 6: Inorganic <strong>Nanotechnology</strong> <strong>Enabled</strong> <strong>Sensors</strong><br />

Fig. 6.4 k-space in 2D.<br />

The DOS in reciprocal space can therefore be calculated as:<br />

D<br />

( k)<br />

2π<br />

k dk k L dk<br />

dk = 2 × = ,<br />

2<br />

⎛ 2π<br />

⎞ π<br />

⎜ ⎟<br />

⎝ L ⎠<br />

2<br />

(6.18)<br />

where again the multiplication by 2 accounts for the intrinsic angular momentum<br />

of the electrons (or 3 for phonons). Consequently, from (6.14), the<br />

2D DOS in E space is:<br />

2<br />

2<br />

L kdk L m<br />

D(<br />

E)<br />

dE = = dE . (6.19)<br />

2 π π�<br />

It can be seen that the 2D DOS does not depend on the energy value<br />

unlike the 3D DOS. This time, the DOS takes on a staircase-function as<br />

follows:<br />

0<br />

ky<br />

kx

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