Download or read book The Electron phonon Interaction in Metals written by Göran Grimvall and published by North Holland. This book was released on 1981 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atlas of Point Contact Spectra of Electron Phonon Interactions in Metals written by A.V. Khotkevich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The characteristics of electrical contacts have long attracted the attention of researchers since these contacts are used in every electrical and electronic device. Earlier studies generally considered electrical contacts of large dimensions, having regions of current concentration with diameters substantially larger than the characteristic dimensions of the material: the interatomic distance, the mean free path for electrons, the coherence length in the superconducting state, etc. [110]. The development of microelectronics presented to scientists and engineers the task of studying the characteristics of electrical contacts with ultra-small dimensions. Characteristics of point contacts such as mechanical stability under continuous current loads, the magnitudes of electrical fluctuations, inherent sensitivity in radio devices and nonlinear characteristics in connection with electromagnetic radiation can not be understood and altered in the required way without knowledge of the physical processes occurring in contacts. Until recently it was thought that the electrical conductivity of contacts with direct conductance (without tunneling or semiconducting barriers) obeyed Ohm's law. Nonlinearities of the current-voltage characteristics were explained by joule heating of the metal in the region of the contact. However, studies of the current-voltage characteristics of metallic point contacts at low (liquid helium) temperatures [142] showed that heating effects were negligible in many cases and the nonlinear characteristics under these conditions were observed to take the form of the energy dependent probability of inelastic electron scattering, induced by various mechanisms.
Download or read book The Electron phonon Interaction in Metals written by Nicolas Bock and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Electron Phonon Interaction in Metals written by E. Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electron Phonon Interactions and Phase Transitions written by T. Riste and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This NATO Advanced Study Institute was the fourth in a series devoted to the subject of phase transitions and instabilities with particular attention to structural phase transforma~ions. Beginning wi th the first Geilo institute in 19'(1 we have seen the emphasis evolve from the simple quasiharmonic soft mode description within the Landau theory, through the unexpected spectral structure re presented by the "central peak" (1973), to such subjects as melting, turbulence and hydrodynamic instabilities (1975). Sophisticated theoretical techniques such as scaling laws and renormalization group theory developed over the same period have brought to this wide range of subjects a pleasing unity. These institutes have been instrumental in placing structural transformations clearly in the mainstream of statistical physics and critical phenomena. The present Geilo institute retains some of the counter cul tural flavour of the first one by insisting whenever possible upon peeking under the skirts of even the most successful phenomenology to catch a glimpse of the underlying microscopic processes. Of course the soft mode remains a useful concept, but the major em phasis of this institute is the microscopic cause of the mode softening. The discussions given here illustrate that for certain important classes of solids the cause lies in the electron phonon interaction. Three major types of structural transitions are considered. In the case of metals and semimetals, the electron phonon interaction relie6 heavily on the topology of the Fermi surface.
Download or read book The Electron phonon Interaction in Normal Metals written by John Franklin Kenney and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A First Principles Investigation of the Electron phonon Interaction in Metals written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Principles Study of the Electron phonon Interaction in Metals written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electron Phonon Interactions written by Albert Rose and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is a radical departure from the conventional quantum mechanical approach to electron-phonon interactions. It translates the customary quantum mechanical analysis of the electron-phonon interactions carried out in Fourier space into a predominantly classical analysis carried out in real space. Various electron-phonon interactions such as the polar and nonpolar optical phonons, acoustic phonons that interact via deformation potential and via the piezoelectric effect and phonons in metals, are treated in this monograph by a single, relatively simple ?classical? model. This model is shown to apply to electron interactions with the deep lying X-ray levels of atoms, with plasmons and with Cerenkov radiation. The unifying concept that applies to all of these phenomena is a new definition of a coupling constant. The essentially classical interaction of an electron with its surrounding is clearly brought out to be the cause of spontaneous emission of phonons. The same concept also applies to the case of spontaneous emission of photons. While the bulk of this monograph deals with quanta of phonons and quanta of photons, a discussion of the acousto electric effect which is a purely classical phenomenon is presented. The newly defined coupling constant turns out to be valid too for this discussion. This universality of the coupling constant goes far beyond. It is equally applicable to amorphous materials. This significant application gives an analytic formulation of mobility in amorphous materials.
Download or read book Electron phonon Interaction in Metals and Elastic Effects in Quantum Well Resonators written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of the Electron phonon Interaction in Hexagonal Close packed Metals written by Paul Thomas Truant and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electrons and Phonons written by J.M. Ziman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a classic text of its time in condensed matter physics.
Download or read book Extensions of the Theory of the Electron Phonon Interaction in Metals A Collection written by W. E. Pickett and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents several contributions to the formulation, calculation and understanding of the effects of electron-phonon interaction in metals with variation in the electronic density of states on the scale of a typical phonon energy. The A15 compound Nb3Sn is studied in detail with this theory. (Author).
Download or read book A Field Theoretic Study of Electron Phonon Interactions in Metals written by Sami Hakim Mikhail and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effect of Electron phonon Interaction on Electronic Specific Heat of Simple Metals written by Neil W. Ashcroft and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quantitative importance (almost dominance) of the electron-phonon interaction in the deviation of the electronic specific heat from the free electron value in simple metals is reported. Only the metals Na, Al and Pb were considered since for them (i) The band structure and the Fermi surfaces are relatively well known and (ii) The phonon dispersion curves have been measured. With this knowledge the calculations are performed with no adjustable parameters.
Download or read book Electron phonon Interaction at Metal Surfaces written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of Electron Phonon Interaction in Metals written by Xiaodong Yang and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonons and electrons are two types of excitations which are responsible for many properties of condensed matter materials. The interaction between them plays an important role in condensed matter physics. In this thesis we present some theoretical investigations of the effects due to the interactions between phonons and electrons interactions. We show evidence that a structural martensitic transition is related to significant changes in the electronic structure, as revealed in thermodynamic measurements made in high magnetic fields. The effect of the magnetic field is considered unusual, as many influential investigations of martensitic transitions have emphasized that the structural transitions are primarily lattice dynamical and are driven by the entropy due to the phonons. We provide a theoretical frame-work which can be used to describe the effect of a magnetic field on the lattice dynamics in which the field dependence originates from the dielectric constant. The temperature-dependence of the phonon spectrum of alpha-uranium has recently been measured by Manley et al. using inelastic neutron scattering and x-ray scattering techniques. Although there is scant evidence of anharmonic interactions, the phonons were reported to show some softening of the optic modes at the zone boundary. The same group of authors later reported that an extra vibrational mode was observed to form at a temperature above 450 K. The existence of the proposed new mode is inconsistent with the usual theory of harmonic phonons, as applied to a structure composed of a monoclinic Bravais lattice with a two-atom basis. We investigate the effect that the f electron-phonon interaction has on the phonon spectrum and its role on the possible formation of a breathing mode of mixed electronic and phonon character. We examine the model by using Green's function techniques to obtain the phonon spectral density. Some materials undergo phase transitions from a high temperature state with periodic translational invariance to a state in which the electronic charge density is modulated periodically. The wave vector of the modulation may be either commensurate or incommensurate with the reciprocal lattice vectors of the high temperature structure. In the case of an incommensurate charge density wave, the system supports phason excitation. For an incommensurate state, the new ground state has a lower symmetry than the high temperature state since the charge density does not have long-ranged periodic translational order. If the metal is ideal (with no impurities), a charge density wave should be able to slide throughout the crystal without resistance, resulting in current flow similar to that of a superconductor. The phason is an excitation of the charge density wave which is related to the collective motion of electrons. We estimate the phason density of states, and the phason contribution to the specific heat. Angle-resolved photoemission experiments have been performed on USb2, and very narrow quasiparticle peaks have been observed in a band which local spin-density approximation (LSDA) predicts to osculate the Fermi energy. The observed band is found to be depressed by 17 meV below the Fermi energy. The experimentally observed quasiparticle dispersion relation for this band exhibits a kink at an energy of about 23 meV below the Fermi energy. The kink is not found in LSDA calculations and, therefore, is attributable to a change in the quasiparticle mass renormalization by a factor of approximately 2. The existence of a kink in the quasiparticle dispersion relation of a band which does not cross the Fermi energy is unprecedented. The kink in the quasiparticle dispersion relation is attributed to the effect of the interband self-energy involving transitions from the osculating band into a band that does cross the Fermi energy.
