Resistivities of Alloy Single Crystals

Authors

H. E. Way, State University of Iowa

Document Type

Research

Abstract

A somewhat systematic attempt is being made to study the effect on electrical resistivity of zinc of small amounts of dissolved metallic impurities. In order to do this sets of single crystals have been made, each set containing a known percentage of some one impurity. The resistivities and some temperature coefficients of resistivity have been measured. The resistivity results include at the present data on sets of crystals containing 0.125, 0.25, 0.50 per cent of copper, gold, or silver, and 0.005% and.01 per cent iron. In all cases the resistivity increases with increase of added metal but not in a linear fashion. Iron has the most marked effect,.01 per cent iron producing as much increase as 0.5% copper. The temperature coefficient is lowered, depending on the added impurity. The ratio of principal resistivities, Q₀/Q₉₀, is about the same as for zinc crystals, i.e. with no added impurities.

Publication Date

1936

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

43

Issue

1

First Page

272

Last Page

273

Copyright

©1936 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Way, H. E. (1936) "Resistivities of Alloy Single Crystals," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 43(1), 272-273.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol43/iss1/88