Contribution of a point defect to the electrical resistivity of simple and non-simple metals

Recently proposed potential has been used to calculate the contribution of a point defect to the electrical resistivity of simple and non-simple metals including d and f-shell metals. The parameter of the potential has been determined using zero pressure condition while the exchange and correlation effect due to Taylor is incorporated. Our present findings for Al, Pb, Cu, Ag and Au are excellent in agreement with the experimental findings while alkali metals have comparable results with the other such theoretical findings. We could not find sufficient theoretical as well as experimental data for Ni, Pd, Pt, Rh, Ir, La, Yb, Ce and Th for the contribution of a point defect to the electrical resistivity (residual resistivity) in order to workout a quantitative comparison. It, therefore, seems difficult to give concrete remark about the present results; we conclude that the calculations of monovacancy resistivity based on pseudopotential theory can be regarded as a sensitive test for the proper assessment of the pseudopotential form factor.