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Determining fermi energy

Submitted by smukherjee on

Hi everyone.

 

I want to determine Fermi energy from the band structure of a conductor and a semiconductor.

I believe that for semiconductors, it is given by the average of highest energy in the valence band and the lowest energy in the conduction band. Please correct me if required.

I am wondering how to obtain fermi energy for conductors where those two bands are overlapping.

 

Thanks in advance.