Table 1.

Fermi levels relative to the vacuum energy level (in eV) and resistivities at 300 K (in × 10⁻⁸ Ω m) of the metals studied in this paper

	Au	Ag	Cu	Cr	Mo	W	Ni	Co	Pd
Fermi levela)	−5.1	−4.26	−4.65	−4.5	−4.6	−4.55	−5.15	−5.0	−5.12
Resistivityb)	2.271	1.629	1.725	12.7	5.52	5.44	7.20	5.6	10.80

^a)Ref. 47

^b)Ref. 48.