Electrical Size Effect of Aluminum Single Crystals
- 1 July 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 42 (8) , 3054-3057
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1660683
Abstract
The dependence of the residual electrical resistivity on sample size has been measured for four single crystals of high-purity aluminum. Measurements were made for several thicknesses of each sample by using a chemical polishing solution to reduce the thickness. The theory of Dingle has been adapted in order to analyze the data. Results give good agreement with the Fuchs-Sondheimer theory of the size effect and give a value for the constant ρbl (bulk resistivity times mean free path) of 7.6×10−12 Ωcm2.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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