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Fermi Surface in Aluminum

Walter A. Harrison

  • General Electric Research Laboratory, Schenectady, New York

Phys. Rev. 116, 555 – Published 1 November, 1959

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.116.555

Abstract

The band structure of aluminum is reconsidered in a combined experimental and theoretical approach very similar to that originally used by Heine. A more careful analysis of the de Haas-van Alphen data of Gunnersen has indicated a considerable flexibility in models consistent with it and has allowed the proposal of a Fermi surface which is much closer to that expected on theoretical grounds than the model suggested by Heine. It is found here that the first Brillouin zone is completely filled; that the second zone contains a single closed surface surrounding a region of holes; and that the third zone contains a multiply-connected surface which gives rise to all of the observed de Haas-van Alphen oscillations.

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