A Guide to the Literature for Metallic Elements and Their Binary Metallic Alloys

Abstract

Solid State. This monovalent metal has a fee structure. Its Fermi surface is shown schematically in the upper part of Fig. 4.1. The origin of this shape is discussed qualitatively in Section 4.1 while the most recent and detailed quantitative information about it is probably that given by Halse.¹ Since the interpretation of the behavior of the Hall effect in the group 1B metals is discussed in Chapter 4, the present paragraph consists simply of a list of the available data. Those obtained for polycrystalline samples and published after 1904 are summarized in Table 7.1, while those obtained for single-crystal samples are included in Table 7.2. The temperature dependence of R for a typical polycrystalline sample (at 15.17 kG) is shown in Fig. 7.2 for the range 6–300 K, and in greater detail in Fig. 4.13 for the range up to 80 K. The field dependence of R for the same sample (at about 6 K) is also shown in Fig. 4.5. As this figure shows, and as we have pointed out in Section 4.2.1, R for a polycrystalline sample is field-independent in both the high- and low-field conditions. The field dependence occasionally reported in Table 7.1 is probably the result of the presence of trace impurities which can precipitate the high-field/low-field transition during the experiment.