Vacancies and the electrical resistivity of potassium
- 1 August 1979
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics
- Vol. 9 (8) , 1503-1510
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4608/9/8/004
Abstract
The authors have measured the electrical resistivity rho (T) of potassium to a relative accuracy of 0.2% in the temperature range 200Kv which is in good accord with the theoretical prediction of Jacucci and Taylor (1979). However a careful error analysis shows that the combined effects of theoretical and experimental uncertainties are sufficiently large to place Hv at any point in the range from 0.2 eV to 0.6 eV. They therefore conclude that measurement of the high-temperature electrical resistivity of a metal is not a useful tool for investigating vacancy formation.Keywords
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