Thermoelectricity in Metallic Conductors

1. Front Matter

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2. Reminiscences of Work with D.K.C. MacDonald at the National Research Council

   • I. M. Templeton

   Pages 1-20

3. The Absolute Thermopower of Lead

   • R. B. Roberts

   Pages 21-27

4. Evidence of an Anomalous Thomson Effect

   • P. B. Jacovelli, O. H. Zinke

   Pages 29-36

5. Pure Noble Metals

   • A. M. Guénault, D. G. Hawksworth

   Pages 37-38

6. Homovalent Noble Metal Alloys

   • A. M. Guénault

   Pages 39-41

7. The Thermopowers and Resistivities of Copper Alloyed with Homovalent and Polyvalent Impurities and the Validity of the Nordheim-Gorter Relation

   • A. Rahim Chowdhry, R. D. Barnard

   Pages 43-50

8. Electron Transport in Ag-Hg Alloys

   • R. Craig, R. S. Crisp

   Pages 51-55

9. Thermopower in Alloys of Ag with Zn, Ga, Ge and As at Low Temperatures

   • S. J. Song, R. S. Crisp

   Pages 57-64

10. The Diffusion Thermopower on the Two-Band Model-Separation of Diffusion and Phonon Drag Components in Noble Metal Alloy Systems

    • R. S. Crisp

    Pages 65-70

11. Present State of Experimental Knowledge on Thermopower of Metals at High Temperatures — Above 77 K

    • M. V. Vedernikov, A. T. Burkov

    Pages 71-90

12. Thermoelectricity in Transition Metals

    • D. Greig

    Pages 91-106

13. On the Thermoelectricity in Uranium Intermetallics

    • H. J. van Daal, K. H. J. Buschow, P. B. van Aken

    Pages 107-115

14. The Thermopower of Metallic Binary Continuous Solid Solutions

    • M. V. Vedernikov, V. G. Dvunitkin, A. Zhumagulov

    Pages 117-123

15. Calculated High-Temperature Thermopower of Niobium and Molybdenum*

    • P. B. Allen, B. Chakraborty

    Pages 125-130

16. First Principles Calculation of the High-Temperature Thermopower of Sodium and Potassium

    • C. R. Leavens, Roger Taylor

    Pages 131-136

17. Calculation of Thermopower in Noble Metals Using dHvA Data

    • R. R. Bourassa, Shing-Yah Wang

    Pages 137-144

18. On Calculation of Thermopower of Group I Metals

    • M. V. Vedernikov, I. V. Abarenkov, I. L. Korobova, J. Marton

    Pages 145-148

19. Thermoelectric Effects in Superconductors

    • G. F. Zharkov

    Pages 149-161

20. Thermoelectric Effect in a Nonequilibrium Superconductor

    • Charles M. Falco

    Pages 163-171

The first International Conference on Thermoelectric Properties of Metallic Conductors was held at Michigan State University on August 10-12, 1977. The conference was sponsored and supported by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research and the Ford Motor Company. Although the topic may appear, at first glance, rather narrow and of limited interest, it impacts significantly on numerous fields of research, in each instance providing a unique and fru- ful technique for securing important data that is frequently difficult to obtain by other means. Thus, though thermoelectricity is the thread that binds these pages together, the papers constitute a patchwork quilt that includes critical phenomena, superconductivity, many-body theory, quasi one-dimensional systems, liquid metals, to mention only a few. This volume contains the 12 invited and 31 contributed papers, arranged in the order in which they were presented, as well as much of the frequently spirited and always illuminating discussion that followed these papers. Regrettably, not all of the discussion is included. Difficulties with the recording system during the first session (Wednesday morning) did not become apparent before the end of that session, and, consequently, none of the discussion--some of it fairly heated--appears in the proceedings; other remarks were lost to posterity through occasional malfunctioning of the record­ ing facilities and/or failure of speakers to come near a microphone.

• Niob
• copper
• diffusion
• electricity
• foundation
• liquid
• mercury
• metals
• molybdenum
• noble metal
• potassium
• research
• sodium
• superconductivity
• uranium

• Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

  Frank J. Blatt, Peter A. Schroeder