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Vasileff's Calculation of Electronic Self-Energy in Semiconductors

E. N. AdamsWestinghouse Research Laboratories, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1957en
ABI

Abstract

It is shown that Vasileff's theory expressing the shift of the thermal band edge in terms of such parameters as effective mass fails for semiconductors of the usual type because of the predominance of processes involving virtual phonons of large wave number.

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