Band structure and band occupancy

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QUESTION 1: Band Structure

Carriers in a two-dimensional (2D) sample occupy a conduction band with the approximate energy-wavevector relation

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where a = 2nm is the spacing of the 2D square-lattice "crystal" in real space, and U = 150meV is the maximum spread of the band.

(a) Choose ky = 0 and roughly sketch E(k) as a function of wavenumber k along the kx-direction. Show the boundary points of the Brillouin zone(BZ).

The complete BZ in 2D is a square centred on k = 0. Draw another sketch, this time of the contour in the 2D zone for which E(k) = U/2. What is the magnitude of k on this contour?

(b) Using Eq. (1), show that the group velocity in the band (still along the x-axis), de?ned as

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can be written as

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(c) What is the limit of vx(k) when k = kx = π/a? What is the limit when kx → 0 from the negative side?

(d) The effective mass depends only on k since the band is circularly symmetric, and is given simply by

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Find the expression for the ratio m∗ (k)/me if Eq. (1) holds. How does this ratio behave at the centre of the BZ? Give its value at k = π/a. Explain how the sign of m∗ relates to the band shape there.

QUESTION 2: Band Occupancy

The density of states (DOS), for a sample of 2D material, counts up how many states become available in the band as we move up along its energy curve E = E(k). Its formula in 2D, including spin degenracy of the band, is

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(a) For the same band as in Question 1, sketch D(E) in the range 0 < E < U. What are its units?

(b) When E << U we can approximate the DOS as  1731_Band Structure5.png

Suppose we are at zero temperature and the band continas electrons with Fermi energy EF; their distribution function (the probability to occupy a state at some given energy) is f(E) = Θ(EF - E) - that is, f = 1 below the Fermi level, and is zero otherwise.

Assuming EF << U, how would you use the information for D(E) from Eq. (3) together with the distribution f(E) to calculate the total number of electrons per cm2 of sample?

(c) Now estimate the density for EF = 35meV, using the parameter values a and U given in Q.1. On average, how many electrons occupy a unit cell of size a2 in the real lattice?

(d) It turns out that the integration for carrier density over the full DOS can be done exactly up to E = U. It is given by where sin-1 (x) denotes the sine-inverse function (known in the U.S. as arcsin(x), this ex- pression is NOT the reciprocal 1/ sin(x); it is that value y which satis?es sin(y) = x).

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What is the number of electrons per unit cell of the real lattice when EF = U and also when EF = U/√2?

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