Electronic Structure of Bismuth Type Crystals, II

Abstract

Further study of the electronic structure of bismuth type crystals is made by calculating the energies along some directions in the reduced zone in more detail than in the previous paper, and a discussion is made on the location of electrons and holes in the Brillouin zone. We propose that in the case of bismuth the electrons are located at each centre of upper and lower inclined planes of Jones’ zone and the holes are located at a particular point on each cross line of side-planes parallel to the c-axis, while in the case of antimony the electrons are located at the same places as in bismuth and the holes at different places which are defined in the text. On this model some electric and magnetic properties of the metals and alloys are discussed.