A hydrogenic donor has the effective Bohr radius of a hydrogenic donor
using the external .[ref] Increasing donor density causes donor states to overlap and screens their binding, allowing a metallic impurity system rather than isolated frozen-out donors.
Using the standard approximate Mott criterion, , gives
The factor 0.25 is an externally documented empirical criterion, not supplied exam data or an exact universal threshold.[ref] An order-of-magnitude overlap argument without that prefactor would give . Compensation, disorder and multivalley anisotropy affect a real material's transition; this estimate uses the scalar mass and permittivity actually supplied, without substituting other germanium parameters.