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Surface electron‐phonon interaction
Author(s) -
Ilkovič V.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.2220440131
Subject(s) - electron , thermal conduction , scattering , condensed matter physics , physics , phonon , relaxation (psychology) , surface (topology) , lattice (music) , atomic physics , quantum mechanics , mathematics , geometry , psychology , social psychology , acoustics
The scattering of conduction electrons by surface waves is studied theoretically basing on energy considerations. The relaxation time for this scattering mechanism and the quantity \documentclass{article}\pagestyle{empty}\begin{document}$ (\overline {\partial \varepsilon /\partial t})_s $\end{document} characterizing the mean energy which is transferred by the conduction electrons to the surface lattice per unit time are calculated.