New method to study the electron-phonon interaction in metals
- 13 April 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 58 (15) , 1567-1570
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.58.1567
Abstract
A new kind of point-contact spectroscopy is described: The magnitude of the transverse electron focusing signal in a Ag single crystal is measured as a function of the energy of the injected electrons. For low energies, this is a direct measurement of the energy dependence of the electron-phonon interaction strength of electrons in a specific orbit on the Fermi surface. Also for higher energies effects of the anisotropy of the electron-phonon interaction are observed.Keywords
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