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8<br />

( x) u ( x)<br />

e<br />

k<br />

k<br />

ikx<br />

cos( kc)<br />

F<br />

2 2<br />

<br />

F cos( b)cos( a) sin( b)sin( a)<br />

2<br />

(1.4)<br />

The above equations show that real solutions only exist for F 1 and the solution is<br />

wavelike. The gaps between these discontinuities are forbidden regions where no real<br />

solution exists. This treatment while being instructive as a paradigm for evolution of<br />

electronic structure in a periodic lattice, it does not include various complications that arise in<br />

the case of a charge carrier in solids. For example potential is not square well, electron at one<br />

lattice site interacts with nearby electrons and lattice site, furthermore electron- electron<br />

correlations introduces more complications. In a bulk semiconductor the potential varies<br />

along different directions. Therefore the dispersion of electrons along different directions is<br />

expected to be different. These complications were innovatively resolved in bulk<br />

semiconductors by using effective mass model. This model uses an approximation where the<br />

electrons and holes are assumed as free particles with different masses as compared to free<br />

electron mass or in other words the dispersion is assumed to be parabolic near k=0 or at zone<br />

center. The effective mass of charge carriers is a combined effect of all interaction of charge<br />

carriers in the crystal lattice.<br />

1.2.2 Effective Mass Approximation<br />

As mentioned previously Bloch functions are taken as Eigen functions to solve<br />

Schrodingers Equation for a solid [1.14]. Therefore wave function in a 3-D solid is given by

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