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The electronic structure of small-gap semiconductors is characterized by important band mixing and non-parabolicity at energies of interest for the interpretation of all experiments. In heterostructures, the coupling of bands with different character produces a strongly non-parabolic dispersion of the subbands and, when a magnetic field is present, a complicated Landau level pattern. This will be exemplified by results of calculations performed with the envelope-function method for InAs-GaSb and HgTe-CdTe heterostructures. Current problems in the interpretation of magneto-optical and Quantum Hall experiments are discussed.
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Altarelli, M. (1987). Magnetic Field Effects on the Electronic States of Narrow-Gap Low-Dimensional Structures. In: Sotomayor Torres, C.M., Portal, J.C., Maan, J.C., Stradling, R.A. (eds) Optical Properties of Narrow-Gap Low-Dimensional Structures. NATO ASI Series, vol 152. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1879-8_2
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