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During the past three years we have developed greatly improved methods for determining the electronic energy band structure of crystals. In the course of perfecting these methods, we investigated the electronic band structure and related physical properties of over 50 crystalline solids, including the diamond-type crystals; various polytypes of SiC; a large number of III–V, II–VI, and I–VII compounds having the sphalerite structure; additional II–VI and I–VII crystals having the wurtzite and rock-salt structures; several II–IV compounds (anti-fluorite structure); a number of IV–VI compounds (rock-salt structure); and various solid rare gases (face-centered cubic structure). Most of the substances studied were semiconductors with band gaps in the range from 0.5 to 5 eV; some were small band-gap semiconductors or semi-metals; the others were insulators with band gaps larger than 5 eV. All these materials are of scientific interest; many, especially Si, Ge, SiC, and various III–V, II–VI, and IV–VI compounds, are also of considerable technological interest.
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Herman, F. (1969). Energy Band Structure of Semiconductors. In: Haidemenakis, E.D. (eds) Electronic Structures in Solids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6537-0_2
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