Electrical Transport and Electronic Structure Calculation of Al-Ga Binary Alloys

• Authors: A. Kumar , D. Ojha
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The Harrison first principle pseudopotential technique based on the concept of orthogonalized plane waves has been used to study the liquid electrical resistivity and other physical properties viz., Knight shift, Fermi energy and electronic density of states of liquid binary alloys of simple metals. We have also performed a first-principles calculation of the electronic band structure of Al-Ga binary alloy at equiatomic composition employing the full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method. Total energy minimization enables us to estimate the equilibrium volume, bulk modulus and its pressure derivative. We have also described the total density of states and the partial density of states around the Fermi energy.

Keywords

EN

72.15.Cz; 76.60.Cq; 71.20.-b; 71.22.+i

Discipline

• 71.20.-b: Electron density of states and band structure of crystalline solids
• 71.22.+i: Electronic structure of liquid metals and semiconductors and their alloys
• 76.60.Cq: Chemical and Knight shifts
• 72.15.Cz: Electrical and thermal conduction in amorphous and liquid metals and alloys

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 119
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 408-415

Dates

published

2011-03

received

2010-04-28

(unknown)

2010-11-23

Contributors

author

A. Kumar

• Department of Physics, Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada - 520008, A.P., India

author

D. Ojha

• Department of Physics, Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada - 520008, A.P., India

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.119.408