Anisotropy and isotropy of hole effective mass of strained Ge

In this paper, the hole effective mass along arbitrarily k wavevector direction and the hole isotropic effective masses in strained Ge/(001)(101)(111)Si1-xGex are obtained with in the frame work of kp theory. It is found that the hole effective mass of the top valence band along [010] wave vector decreases obviously with stress increasing and its absolute value is smallest. The hole effective mass of the second valence band tends to gently decrease with stress increasing, and is not significant in magnitude. Compared with the existing isotropic effective quality, the result obtained in this paper is proved to be correct.