Effective Mass (solid-state Physics) - Effective Mass For Some Common Semiconductors

Effective Mass For Some Common Semiconductors

Effective mass (me)
Group Material Electron me Hole mh
IV Si (300K) 1.08 0.56
Ge 0.55 0.37
III-V GaAs 0.067 0.45
InSb 0.013 0.6
II-VI ZnO 0.29 1.21
ZnSe 0.17 1.44
See also: k·p perturbation theory#Effective mass

The effective mass is used in transport calculations, such as transport of electrons under the influence of fields or carrier gradients, but also is used to calculate the density of states. These masses are related, but are not the same because the weighting of various directions and wavevectors are different. The density-of-states effective masses are tabulated below for a few cases.

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