Why is the mobility of electron higher than

that of hole

It depends on the material.

In a metal, the mobility of electrons and holes is almost the same.
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In a semiconductor, the electron mobility is larger than the hole mobility (except for
a few exceptions)
The major reason of different motilities in a semiconductor is different special
symmetry for electrons and holes.
The special symmetry of electrons is s-orbital like (spherical).
The special symmetry of holes is p-orbital like.
It takes a longer time for an electron to circle the p-orbital than the s-orbital. It
makes a hole slower than an electron.
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Fig. Movement of a delocalized electron in a metal

The movement of holes is not movement of electrons to fill up an adjacent hole in

the covalent bond. The movement of a hole is as "free" as the movement of an
electron. In fact, both the electrons and the holes are the same delocalized
electrons. For example, in a metal the electrons and holes can be only distinguished
by their energy. The energy of an electron is above the Fermi energy and the energy
of a hole is below the Fermi energy. Of cause, an electron and a hole interact
differently with electrical field.

The mean-free path of a hole may reach several micrometers (typically in a

semiconductor it is 50-200 nm at room temperature). If you see an electron as a
wave, the mean-free path of an electron is just the size of the electron. Therefore,
the size of a hole may be a micrometer. The distance between covalent bonds is
about 0.1 nm. It means that simultaneously an electron or a hole is filling up or
interacts with a million of covalent bonds. Surely, the movement of holes is not
movement of an electron to fill up adjacent holes in the covalent bonds. Besides, in
order to jump from one covalent bond to other covalent bond an electron needs to
interact with a phonon. In the case if such jumping between the covalent bonds
were the mechanism of the hole transport, the hole mobility would be very small. It
would be even smaller than mobility in a material with hopping conduction.

In a metal the electron mobility and the hole mobility is the same. Only reason for a
difference in the mobilities in a semiconductor is different spatial symmetry of the
envelop function for an electron and a hole.
The mobility of electrons and holes is different, because the electrons and holes have different
spatial symmetry. The electrons have s-orbital-like symmetry of the envelop wave function. The
holes have p-orbital-like symmetry of the envelop wave function.

There are two reasons why the difference in the spatial symmetry causes the different mobility.
They may sound different, but they explain the same fact.

The first reason, why the mobility is different, is that it takes a longer time for an electron to
circle around the p-orbital than around the s-orbital.
A delocalized electron simultaneously moves along the crystal lattice and rotates around millions
of atomic nuclei . It might sound strange that it is possible to rotate around several objects
simultaneously. Since an electron is a wave, it is possible. For example, when light is diffracted
by a diffraction grating , each photon is reflected from each of million steps of the grating)
simultaneously. Any wave can interact with many objects simultaneously. It is not forbidden.
There are many experimental proofs that delocalized electrons have a non-zero orbital moment.
For example, their g-factor is different from 2, they experience the center-symmetrical spin-orbit
interaction and the existence of the split-off valence band is other proof. The non-zero orbital
moment literally means that the delocalized electron is orbiting around atomic nuclei.

The second reason, why the mobilities (effective masses) are different for holes and electrons in
a semiconductor, is that the magnitudes of the s-like and p-like envelope functions are different
in the vicinity of the atomic nucleus. The electrons of different symmetry interact differently
with the nucleus. Therefore, the amplitude of the lattice periodic potential is different for
electrons and holes in a semiconductor. This causes the different effective masses.