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Hi, I'm new to these forums. I'm a graduate student at the University of Delaware, working on a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Although my field is ECE, there is a lot of overlap between ECE and Physics. I'm doing lab work, as part of a photonics research group, with other graduate...

Hello. I'm a graduate student in electrical engineering, and I'm taking a class in semiconductor physics. My professor has used this equation for the energy of an electron in a semiconductor: $$E=\frac{\hbar^2 k^2}{2m^*}$$ This seems to imply that energy is inversely proportional to mass, i.e...