Empirical Formulae of Electrical and Thermal Conductivities of Elemental Metals at Room Temperature Ranges

Details Empirical Formulae of Electrical and Thermal Conductivities of Elemental Metals at Room Temperature Ranges Empirical Formulae of Electrical and Thermal Conductivities of Elemental Metals at Room Temperature Ranges

2011-08-31

arxiv.org/abs/1108.6141v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 2 figures

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We propose empirical formulae of the electrical conductivity sigma and thermal conductivity for elemental metals such as Na, Cu or Fe at room temperature ranges. Assuming the relaxation time is given by the Planck constant divided by pai and further divided by the thermal energy kT for all metals, we propose that sigma is given by the Drude form with the number density of atoms instead of the electron number density, and further divided by a single free integer parameter G. If we adopt that G is the sum of outer electron numbers in electron configuration such as G=1 for Cu(4s^{1}),G=1+2=3 for In(5s^{2}4p^{1}) and G=5 for Nb(3d^{4}4s^{1}), the `absolute values' of sigma and a similar one for the thermal conductivity agree with experiments within ~20% for the majority of metals even including semimetals.

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