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In general: How to calculate effective mass from a bandstructure?
Mathematically speaking, calculating the effective mass corresponds to fitting a parabola $E(k)=a + bk^2$ to the electronic energy dispersion $E(k)$ of the band in question. Here, $a$ is the energy of ...
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