Electrical Conductivity, Thermal Conductivity, Thermoelectric Power, Hall Coefficient, and Nernst Coefficient of Amorphous Substances Exhibiting Electronic Conduction [1]

Abstract

In preceding chapters, we investigated the general features of the scattering of electrons in amorphous conductors and calculated the electron mean free path allowing for the scattering due to the departures from long-range order and for the phonon—liquid scattering. However, experimentally we determine not the mean free path, but the electrical conductivity, Hall coefficient, and similar quantities. Since the dependence of the mean free path on the electron energy is different for amorphous conductors and crystals, we may expect a different temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity and other properties. The purpose of the present chapter is to determine this temperature dependence.