Abstract
The high temperature, normal state resistivity of strong coupled superconducting transition metal compounds and other materials with high resistivities saturates at a value corresponding to an electron mean free path of order the interatomic spacing. This accounts for the nonlinear temperature dependence of the resistivity observed in these compounds at high temperature.
Research supported by U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Systems Command, USAF, under AFOSR Contract No. AFOSR/ F44620-C-0017.
Reseach supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMR75-04019.
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Fisk, Z., Webb, G.W. (1976). Saturation of the High Temperature Normal State Electrical Resistivity of Superconductors. In: Douglass, D.H. (eds) Superconductivity in d- and f-Band Metals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8795-8_32
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