Measurements of Hall mobility, thermoelectric power and transverse Nernst-Ettingshausen coefficients have been made on n- and p-type Sn x Pb 1- x Te, Cd x Pb 1- x Te, Mg x Pb 1- x Te, Cd x Pb 1- x Se and Mg x Pb 1- x Se alloys with 0less-than-or-eq, slant x less, similar0·1. The measurements covered the temperature range 100 to 400 K and the alloys had carrier concentrations within the range 5 × 10 17 to 1 × 10 19 cm −3 . To explain the results several scattering mechanisms were considered and the non-parabolicity of the energy bands was taken into account. It was found that the charge carrier scattering in all the materials under the conditions of experimentation was predominantly by acoustical phonons.
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L M Rogers (1971) studied this question.