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In Sect. 2.4, Figs. 2.26, 27, we saw that the conduction bands of silicon and germanium have constant energy surfaces near the band edge which are either 8 half-ellipsoids of 6 ellipsoids of revolution; these correspond to 4 and 6 energy valleys, respectively. In these and many other semiconductors the many-valley model of the energy bands has proved to be a fruitful concept for a description of the observed anisotropy of electrical and optical phenomena. Cyclotron resonance (Sect. 11.11) provides a direct experimental determination of the effective masses in each valley for any crystallographic direction.
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Seeger, K. (1991). Charge Transport and Scattering Processes in the Many-Valley Model. In: Semiconductor Physics. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02663-2_7
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