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Technology / Re: What are the assumptions of the hydrogenic model in semiconductors?
« on: 25/02/2024 18:08:35 »
In full pedant mode, I now wonder if the question is correct?
You take a mathematical (not physical) model of a hydrogen atom (though it happens that solving the Schrodinger equations gives you the same answer), plug it into a non-vacuum environment, and add appropriate experimental values to get an answer for electron mobility that once again gives you a result close to experiment . I don't see any assumptions there, just a few inspired Ave Marias and the mystical transubstantiation of m to m*.
More articles of faith than assumptions, I think. But at least the dictatus ex cathedra survives experimental test!
You take a mathematical (not physical) model of a hydrogen atom (though it happens that solving the Schrodinger equations gives you the same answer), plug it into a non-vacuum environment, and add appropriate experimental values to get an answer for electron mobility that once again gives you a result close to experiment . I don't see any assumptions there, just a few inspired Ave Marias and the mystical transubstantiation of m to m*.
More articles of faith than assumptions, I think. But at least the dictatus ex cathedra survives experimental test!
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