Electrical resistivity of pyrolytic graphite at 2200-3200 K

Crumpling of a pyrolytic graphite sheet

Crumpled graphite thin film balls were fabricated with Panasonic Pyrolytic Graphite Sheets (PGS). The fractal dimension, mechanical properties, and electrical conductivity of the crumpled PGS balls have been investigated. The universal local fractal dimension of the PGS balls is found to be 2.58, which is consistent with that of paper balls. The crumpled PGS balls show good mechanical property ...

Resistivity of Rotated Graphite-Graphene Contacts.

Robust electrical contact of bulk conductors to two-dimensional (2D) material, such as graphene, is critical to the use of these 2D materials in practical electronic devices. Typical metallic contacts to graphene, whether edge or areal, yield a resistivity of no better than 100 Ω μm but are typically >10 kΩ μm. In this Letter, we employ single-crystal graphite for the bulk contact to graphene i...

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY OF NpTe

UFM observation of lattice defects in highly oriented pyrolytic graphite

Ultrasonic force microscopy (UFM) can be used to image the distribution of elastic modulus up to several tens of GPa, which is not possible by the force modulation mode using a soft cantilever of spring constant less than 1 N m‘. It was shown that by careful design of a piezoelectric transducer, together with a sample with small friction force, deflection vibration of the cantilever without tor...

Saturation of electrical resistivity in metals at large temperatures.

We present a microscopic model for systems showing resistivity saturation. An essentially exact quantum Monte Carlo calculation demonstrates that the model describes saturation. We give a simple explanation for saturation, using charge conservation and considering the limit where thermally excited phonons have destroyed the periodicity. Crucial model features are phonons coupling to the hopping...