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The Conductance of a Perfect Thin Film with Diffuse Surface Scattering

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-11 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

The conductance of thin films with diffusive surface scattering was solved semi-classically by Fuchs and Sondheimer. However, when the intrinsic electron mean free path is very large or infinite their conductance diverges. In this letter a simple diffraction picture is presented. It yields a conductance which corresponds to a limiting mean free path. PACS: 73.50.-h, 73.50.Bk, 73.23.-b, 73.25.+i, B146

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0502483,
  title  = {The Conductance of a Perfect Thin Film with Diffuse Surface Scattering},
  author = {Gerd Bergmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0502483},
  year   = {2009}
}