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Metals

Fermi energy of electrons in a thin metallic plate

V. D. Dymnikov

Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg

Abstract: A strict analytical expression for the Fermi energy of electrons in a thin metallic plate as a function of the plate thickness at a given electron density has been derived for the first time. The derivation has been carried out taking into account the size quantization in the free-electron approximation at zero temperature.

Received: 06.07.2010
Accepted: 27.10.2010

 English version: Physics of the Solid State, 2011, 53:5, 901–907

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