Electronic structure of beryllium

✍ Scribed by Joseph Oriade

• Book ID: 104580584
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 358 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7608
• DOI: 10.1002/qua.560210203

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The electronic energy bands in beryllium have been recalculated. The earlier work of Terrell [1] was found to contain a systematic error in the form of overlapping muffin tins. The new band structures give a density of states with the Fermi surface lying in the hole like portion, consistent with Hall measurements. All existing calculations misplaced the Fermi surface. As a further check on the new bands, the Hall coefficient A~H~ was calculated. We obtained A~H~ = (7.6 ± 0.8) × 10^−24^ cgs units for the easy axis or c direction, in excellent agreement with the experimental value of A~H~ = 8.56 × 10^24^ cgs units.