Hall coefficient, electrical resistivity and the nature of electron states in liquid alloys of monovalent noble metals

Abstract

The dependence of the Hall coefficient and the electrical resistivity upon temperature and concentration has been measured for liquid Ag-In alloys. The behaviour of these alloys can be explained, using the available liquid metal theories, in terms of the temperature variation of the Fourier transform of the pair correlation and the small density of states near the Fermi energy in the vicinity of the main peak in a(K). The negative temperature coefficient of the resistivity of ZnSb, CdSb, Te and its alloys is also discussed within this context.