Solution

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Let denote the elementary charge, so an Electron's charge is . In the relaxation-time Drude model with positive transport effective mass,
The steady drift velocity is , defining positive electron mobility . The current density is opposite to the Electron drift:
By the definition of electrical conductivity, , so
Its units are . The mobility definition alone establishes the result in the scalar linear-response regime; the relaxation-time equation supplies a microscopic approximation for .

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