Fermi surface changes and electron scattering anisotropy in the potassium-rubidium alloy system

1985 ◽  
Vol 60 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 85-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. M. Templeton
1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (19) ◽  
pp. 2449-2461 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. T. Coleridge ◽  
I. M. Templeton

The Fermi surface neck size and the scattering cross sections for the neck and [Formula: see text] belly orbits have been measured in dilute alloys of Zn, Al, Ge, Si, Ni, Co, Fe, Mn, and Cr in Cu. Earlier observations of rigid-band behavior for the neck size in Cu(Zn) and Cu(Al), while essentially substantiated by the present measurements, are now believed to be fortuitous; Cu(Ge) and Cu(Si) do not agree with a rigid-band prediction. The changes (generally reductions) of neck size in the transition metal alloys do not appear to be related directly to changes of electron concentration. The scattering anisotropy is rather small in the heterovalent alloys, the scattering being somewhat greater on the necks, but is large and in the opposite sense in the transition metal alloys. The magnitude and anisotropy of scattering is interpreted in terms of phase shifts associated with the impurities and the wave functions over the Fermi surface. There is evidence for additional scattering anisotropy in alloys exhibiting the Kondo effect.


2007 ◽  
Vol 310 (2) ◽  
pp. 1684-1690 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.M. Oppeneer ◽  
S. Elgazzar ◽  
A.B. Shick ◽  
I. Opahle ◽  
J. Rusz ◽  
...  

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 707-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
H L M Bakker ◽  
M J C de Jong ◽  
P M Oppeneer ◽  
R Griessen ◽  
A Lodder ◽  
...  

Following earlier measurements on pure potassium and alloys, we have now made a corresponding study at very low temperatures of thermoelectricity in rubidium, caesium, and their alloys with each other and with potassium. The results have proved in accord with our interpretation of the earlier work, and we discuss the trends observed in both the ‘electron diffusion’ and ‘phonon-drag’ contributions to the absolute thermoelectric power. Both contributions as observed in these metals are consistent with a larger distortion in the Fermi surface of caesium than in those of potassium or rubidium. It appears that the changes in the thermoelectric diffusion term can be attributed consistently to the difference arising from large-angle and small angle scattering. It is supposed that in turn these types of electron scattering arise from the presence of homovalent and heterovalentim purity centres.


1971 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Hodges ◽  
Henrik Smith ◽  
J. W. Wilkins

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