Effective surface impedance of polycrystals under anomalous skin effect conditions

Abstract

The effective impedance of strongly anisotropic polycrystals has been investigated under the conditions of extremely anomalous skin effect. We were interested in finding out how the value of the effective impedance depends on the geometry of the Fermi surface of a single crystal grain. The previously obtained nonperturbative solution based on the application of the impedance (the Leontovich) boundary conditions was used to calculate the effective impedance of a polycrystalline metal. Some model Fermi surfaces were examined. In the vicinity of the electronic topological transition the singularities of the effective impedance related to the change of the topology of the Fermi surface were calculated. Our results show that though a polycrystal is an isotropic medium in average, it is not sufficient to consider it as a metal with an effective spherical Fermi surface, since this can lead to the loss of some characteristic features of extremely anomalous skin effect in polycrystals.