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Condensed Matter Physics, Ch Tight binding, band filling and the three kinds of solid
Problem
A hypothetical insulator has a band gap of 3.0eV. Using the half-gap rule and ignoring its slowly varying prefactor, estimate the temperature at which this insulator's resistivity would fall to silicon's measured room-temperature value.