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Re: heavy/light hole energies

Justin Parke wrote:

I am attempting to calculate the energies of heavy and light holes in quantum wells in AlGaAs/GaAs structures. .... Can anyone recommend a good text or even better, a set of notes available online that I might find useful?

Basic notions of effective mass:

1) Ashcroft & Mermin _Solid State Physics_

2) Kittel _Introduction to Solid State Physics_

3)
http://stewks.ece.stevens-tech.edu/sktpersonal.dir/TechReports/semiconds.pdf

Layered structures in particular:

4) http://userpages.umbc.edu/~rczebo1/research/ch2.pdf