Special features of "fermi"
You may also want to look at the full parameter list of all the buttons and sliders, or at one of the general help files, Sliders, or
Graphs.
MISCELLANEOUS
- The plots are updated automatically whenever a parameter is changed. If the response is sluggish, try reducing the points in graph; if that gives too poor resolution in temperature, decrease the temperature range as well.
- Both valence and conduction bands are modeled as non-degenerate. For quantitative work, a g-fold degeneracy at a band edge may be included by increasing the corresponding carrier effective mass by a factor of g^(2/3).
- If the electron and hole concentrations are the same (the intrinsic regime), only the electron density (in red) is seen. It is written second and overwrites the hole density.
- The origin of the energy plot is arbitrarily taken to be the valence band energy at T = 0 K. The temperature dependence of the energy gap is shared equally between the valence and conduction band edges.