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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 1997  > September  >
In the Laboratory
The Dependence of Resistance on Temperature for Metals, Semiconductors, and Superconductors
Richard A. Butera and David H. Waldeck
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemistry, G15 Chevron Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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September 1997
Vol. 74 No. 9
p. 1090
Abstract
This manuscript describes an experimental exercise for the physical chemistry laboratory which incorporates important features of statistical mechanics and the properties of solid state materials. In this experimental laboratory the students measure the temperature dependence of the resistivity of Cu InSb, and a high Tc oxide superconductor. In addition, the students interpret their resistivity measurements in terms of microscopic properties of the system. This experimental exercise has been implemented in the second term physical chemistry laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, which is taken by both chemistry majors and engineering majors.
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 Butera, Richard A.; Waldeck, David H. J. Chem. Educ. 1997 74 1090.
*  Keywords
 Physical Chemistry, Laboratory, Electron Transport, Laboratory Equipment/Apparatus, Laboratory Instruction, Materials Science, Metals, and Solid-State Chemistry
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