Ytterbium: Effect of Pressure and Temperature on Resistance
- 29 March 1963
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 139 (3561) , 1284
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.139.3561.1284.a
Abstract
The electrical resistance of ytterbium, measured as a function of pressure, shows a sharp maximum at 38 kb, both at 300°K and 77°K. At low pressures ytterbium is a metal because of overlap between filled and empty bands. From about 20 kb to the resistance maximum it is a semiconductor, indicating that the overlap disappears. At the maximum there is a phase transition, and beyond this pressure ytterbium is again metallic.Keywords
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