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          Data

Reference: Silicon in the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute Electronic Archive
Basic Parameters at 300 K
Crystal structure
 Diamond
Group of symmetry 
Oh7-Fd3m
Number of atoms in 1 cm3
5 x 1022
Auger recombination coefficient Cn
   1.1 x 10-30 cm6 s-1
Auger recombination coefficient Cp
 3 x 10-31 cm6 s-1
Debye temperature
 640 °K
Density
 2.329 g cm-3
Dielectric constant
11.7
Effective electron masses m
0.98 mo
Effective electron masses mt
0.19 mo
Effective hole masses mh
0.49 mo
Effective hole masses mlp
0.16 mo
Electron affinity 
4.05 eV
Lattice constant 
5.431 Å
Optical phonon energy 
0.063 eV

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Last updated October 15,  2001