Electrical transport properties of amorphous Ni32Pd53P15 alloy

A ternary alloy containing nickel, palladium and phosphorous in amorphous form has been studied. The electrical transport properties viz. electrical resistivity, thermoelectrical power (TEP), thermal conductivity are computed using our recently proposed potential. In the present work, five screening functions have been employed to incorporate the exchange and correlation effects. The theoretical structure factors due to hard core fluid theory have been used in the calculations. The liquid alloy is studied as a function of its composition at temperature 294 K. The partial structure factors of the compound-forming Ni32Pd53P15 ternary alloy has been calculated by considering Hoshino’s m-component hard-sphere mixture, which is based on Percus-Yevic equation of Hiroike.