Study of monovacancy resistivity of some metallic elements and their dilute alloys by pseudopotential

In this article, the monovacancy resistivity of 24 metallic elements and their 156 dilute alloys of the different groups of the periodic table are reported on the basis of model potential formalism. Ashcroft’s well known empty core (EMC) model potential is explored first time with five different types of the local field correction functions proposed by Hartree (H), Taylor (T), Ichimaru–Utsumi (IU), Farid et al. (F) and Sarkar et al. (S) to investigate the effect of the exchange and correlation on the aforesaid properties. The comparison of presently computed results with available theoretical and experimental findings is highly encouraging. Present investigation of the monovacancy resistivity is found to be quite sensitive to the selection of local field correction function and showing a significant variation with the change in the function.