Electrons in a crystal occupy Bloch states grouped into bands. Metal/insulator/semiconductor determined by whether the Fermi energy lies within or between bands.
Electronic band theory
Related concepts
- Bloch's theorem
- Brillouin zone
- Fermi surface
- Quantum Hall effect
- Topological insulator
- DFT in solids (KS + pseudopotentials)
- Hubbard model
- Operational amplifier (ideal/non-ideal)
- BJT Ebers–Moll model
- MOSFET square-law & short-channel
- Band theory of solids
- Band theory of solids
- Molecular-orbital theory
- Valence bond theory & hybridization
- Bravais lattice