N. Boukos et al., THE INFLUENCE OF DELTA'-PRECIPITATES ON THE ELECTRICAL-RESISTIVITY AND LOW-FIELD HALL-COEFFICIENT OF AL-LI ALLOYS, Philosophical magazine. B. Physics of condensed matter. Structural, electronic, optical and magnetic properties, 70(1), 1994, pp. 67-75
Measurements of the electrical resistivity in the temperature range 4.
2-300 K and of the Hall coefficient at 4.2 K have been performed on an
Al Li alloy of 8 at.% Li concentration. Information on the microstruc
ture of aged alloy were obtained from transmission electron microscopy
. As the mean size of the delta' precipitates increases, the electric
al resistivity at 4.2 K decreases, while the low-field Hall coefficien
t increases with a tendency to saturate. This behaviour can be explain
ed qualitatively considering the anisotropic scattering of the electro
ns both on the delta' precipitates and the randomly distributed Li ato
ms in the matrix. The temperature dependence of the phonon resistivity
of the aged alloy varies as T(n), where 0.5 < n < 3.5.