Study of electrical transport properties of liquid semiconductor binary alloys using pseudopotential theory

Abstract

The electrical transport properties, namely, the electrical resistivity (), the thermoelectric power and thermal conductivity () of several polyvalent semiconductor binary alloys, namely, Cd1 − X Sn X , Cd1 − X Pb X and Cd1 − X Bi X were calculated from the pseudopotential form factors and Percus–Yevick (PY) hard sphere structure factors of Ashcroft and Langreth. The well-recognised empty core model potential of Ashcroft is used for the first time with seven local field correction functions due to Hartree (H), Hubbard–Sham (HS), Vashishta–Singwi (VS), Taylor (T), Ichimaru–Utsumi (IU), Farid et al. (F) and Sarkar et al. (S) in the present computation and found suitable for such a study. It is concluded that the comparison of present and experimental findings is highly encouraging.