# 6.5 De broglie’s matter waves  (Page 3/10)

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## The electron wave in the ground state of hydrogen

Find the de Broglie wavelength of an electron in the ground state of hydrogen.

## Strategy

We combine the first quantization condition in [link] with [link] and use [link] for the first Bohr radius with $n=1.$

## Solution

When $n=1$ and ${r}_{n}={a}_{0}=0.529\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}\text{Å,}$ the Bohr quantization condition gives ${a}_{0}p=1·\hslash ⇒p=\hslash \phantom{\rule{0.1em}{0ex}}\text{/}\phantom{\rule{0.1em}{0ex}}{a}_{0}.$ The electron wavelength is:

$\lambda =h\phantom{\rule{0.1em}{0ex}}\text{/}\phantom{\rule{0.1em}{0ex}}p=h\phantom{\rule{0.1em}{0ex}}\text{/}\phantom{\rule{0.1em}{0ex}}\hslash \phantom{\rule{0.1em}{0ex}}\text{/}\phantom{\rule{0.1em}{0ex}}{a}_{0}=2\pi {a}_{0}=2\pi \left(0.529\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}\text{Å}\right)=3.324\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}\text{Å}.$

## Significance

We obtain the same result when we use [link] directly.

Check Your Understanding Find the de Broglie wavelength of an electron in the third excited state of hydrogen.

$\lambda =2\pi n{a}_{0}=2\text{(}3.324\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}\text{Å}\text{)}=6.648\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}\text{Å}$

Experimental confirmation of matter waves came in 1927 when C. Davisson and L. Germer performed a series of electron-scattering experiments that clearly showed that electrons do behave like waves. Davisson and Germer did not set up their experiment to confirm de Broglie’s hypothesis: The confirmation came as a byproduct of their routine experimental studies of metal surfaces under electron bombardment.

In the particular experiment that provided the very first evidence of electron waves (known today as the Davisson–Germer experiment    ), they studied a surface of nickel. Their nickel sample was specially prepared in a high-temperature oven to change its usual polycrystalline structure to a form in which large single-crystal domains occupy the volume. [link] shows the experimental setup. Thermal electrons are released from a heated element (usually made of tungsten) in the electron gun and accelerated through a potential difference $\text{Δ}V,$ becoming a well-collimated beam of electrons produced by an electron gun. The kinetic energy K of the electrons is adjusted by selecting a value of the potential difference in the electron gun. This produces a beam of electrons with a set value of linear momentum, in accordance with the conservation of energy:

$e\text{Δ}V=K=\frac{{p}^{2}}{2m}⇒p=\sqrt{2me\text{Δ}V}.$

The electron beam is incident on the nickel sample in the direction normal to its surface. At the surface, it scatters in various directions. The intensity of the beam scattered in a selected direction $\phi$ is measured by a highly sensitive detector. The detector’s angular position with respect to the direction of the incident beam can be varied from $\phi =0\text{°}$ to $\phi =90\text{°}.$ The entire setup is enclosed in a vacuum chamber to prevent electron collisions with air molecules, as such thermal collisions would change the electrons’ kinetic energy and are not desirable.

When the nickel target has a polycrystalline form with many randomly oriented microscopic crystals, the incident electrons scatter off its surface in various random directions. As a result, the intensity of the scattered electron beam is much the same in any direction, resembling a diffuse reflection of light from a porous surface. However, when the nickel target has a regular crystalline structure, the intensity of the scattered electron beam shows a clear maximum at a specific angle and the results show a clear diffraction pattern (see [link] ). Similar diffraction patterns formed by X-rays scattered by various crystalline solids were studied in 1912 by father-and-son physicists William H. Bragg and William L. Bragg . The Bragg law in X-ray crystallography provides a connection between the wavelength $\lambda$ of the radiation incident on a crystalline lattice, the lattice spacing, and the position of the interference maximum in the diffracted radiation (see Diffraction ).

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