Electronic Conduction in Solids with Spherically Symmetric Band Structure

Abstract

The scattering of electrons whose energy is a function only of the magnitude of their wave number vector is considered for an elastic and an in-elastic process. The elastic process is scattering by ionized impurities, the in-elastic is scattering by the non-acoustical modes of the lattice vibrations in a homopolar crystal. The times of relaxation for these two processes are calculated.