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Debye’s model of heat capacity in the previous chapter matches experimental data closely over the entire temperature range for non-metallic crystals. But, as we noted in Section 7.3, it fails in the case of metals at very low temperature.
In which we apply the statistical mechanics of fermions to derive a model of electrons’ contribution to a metal’s heat capacity, electrical conductivity, and thermal conductivity. We discuss conductors, semiconductors, and insulators, and finish with a description of light-emitting diodes.
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Koks, D. (2018). Fermion Statistics in Metals. In: Microstates, Entropy and Quanta. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02429-1_8
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