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Electrons in thevalencebandoccupy a range of lower energy states, and are relatively immobile.
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A silicon atom has four electrons in thevalenceband; phosphorus has five such electrons, and boron three.
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Additionally, the effective mass of holes in thevalencebandis changed to more closely match that of electrons in the conduction band.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Including and, this kind of semiconducting titanates, the conduction band has mainly titanium 3d character and thevalencebandoxygen 2p character.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The band diagram typically indicates the variation in thevalencebandand conduction band edges versus some spatial dimension, often denoted "x".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In other words, donor impurities create states near the conduction band while acceptors create states near thevalenceband.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Then, the density of free carriers in the conduction and/or thevalencebandwill increase.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Note that interband transition is the transition between the conduction andvalenceband.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Many copper chalcogenides are degenerate p-type semiconductors with relatively large numbers of holes in theirvalenceband.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In many metals, however, the bands are neither electron-like nor hole-like, and often just calledvalencebandas they are made of valence orbitals.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is also applicable for electrons in thevalenceband(often understood in terms of holes).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The removed electrons are drawn from thevalencebandlevels, leaving vacancies or "holes" in thevalenceband.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In an intrinsic semiconductor the number of electrons in the conduction band is equal to the number of holes in thevalenceband.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The ionizing radiation produces electron-hole pairs - electrons are in the conduction band and holes in thevalenceband.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For example, in a semiconductor the minimum photon energy would actually correspond to thevalencebandedge rather than work function.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Most materials that conduct heat well have avalencebandof free electrons which serve to transfer the heat.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If an otherwise-almost-fullvalencebandhas a state "without" an electron in it, we say that this state is occupied by a hole.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.So electrons near the top of thevalencebandbehave like they have negative mass.
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