Thermal Conductivity of Metals and

R.L. Powell, W.A. Blaupied Thermal Conductivity of Metal and Alloys at Low Temperatures, Nat. Bureau of Standards Circular 556, US Govt. Print. Office, Washington, DC (1954)... 

This can only be decided by experiment, or, failing that, by a suitable hypothesis whose consequences are in agreement with experiment. Properties which appear to approach infinity at the absolute zero are, for example, the electrical and thermal conductivity of metals and the thermal conductivity of crystals (Eucken ), while the thermal conductivity of amorphous bodies, the specific heat, and the coefficient of expansion appear to approach zero. 

Peierls has recently put forward a theory of the thermal conductivity of metals and its relationship to the electrical conductivity which leads to the following important results ... 

Thermal Conductivity of Metals and Semiconductors as a Fimction of Temperature... 

Table 2.5 Thermal conductivities of metals and alloys commonly used in electronic devices...

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF METALS AND SEMICONDUCTORS AS A FUNCTION OF TEMPERATURE... 

Table 2.5. Thermal Conductivities of Metals and Alloys Commonly Used in Electronic Devices and Assemblies...

The electron thermal conductivity of metals and semiconductors is determined by the Wiedemann-Franz law... 

Finally, certain elements are hard but ductile and malleable, conduct electricity, are shiny, and have variable but usually high melting points. These elements are metals, and their collective characteristics are explained by an idea called metallic bonding. In this type of bonding, the electrons of the individual metal atoms pool together to become electrons not of the individual atoms but of the whole solid. This explains the electrical and thermal conductivity of metals, and deeper analysis of this idea explains their other characteristics, too. This is beyond our scope, but understand that the interactions between atoms of metals is a different sort of crystalline bonding that does in fact account for the unique properties of metals. 

Powell and Blanpied (1954) Thermal Conductivity of Metals and Alloys at Low Temperatures—A Review of the Literature by R. L. Powell and W. A. Blanpied, NBS Circular 56, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC. 

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