Electrical properties and annealing behaviour of undoped and doped amorphous silicon carbon nitride (a-SiC N ) thin films, x y deposited by ion beam sputtering techniques, have been studied. Doping of the a-SiC N thin films with magnesium (Mg), and x y phosphorous (P) was carried out by ion implantation techniques, and subsequent annealing effect on the electrical conductivity (s) and activatio...

Electrical transmission signals have been used for decades to characterize the internal structure of composite materials. We theoretically analyze the transmission of an electrical signal through a composite material which consists of two phases with different chemical compositions. We assume that the temperature of the biphasic system increases as a result of Joule heating and its electrical r...

The immersed interface method (IIM) by Li and LeVeque has been used successfully for a wide variety of problems. We extended it to nonlinear one-dimensional elliptic and parabolic problems and applied it to traac ow. When applying the IIM to inverse problems in electrical impedance tomography, we found unstabilities that prohibited its use. Recent improvements by Li have overcome the problems (...

Improving the thermoelectric efficiency is one of the greatest challenges in materials science. The recent discovery of excellent thermoelectric performance in simple orthorhombic SnSe crystal offers new promise in this prospect [Zhao et al. Nature 508, 373 (2014)]. By calculating the thermoelectric properties of orthorhombic IV-VI compounds GeS,GeSe,SnS, and SnSe based on the first-principles ...

The solid-state electrical conductivities of a number of ferredoxin model compounds are reported. For one of these compounds, (KFeS(2))(n), an electron transfer rate for a 25 A unit is shown to be at least 1 x 10(8) electrons sec(-1). The rate becomes proportionally larger for smaller molecular units. This rapid rate is consistant with a short pipe model for electron transport between two react...

The quantum magnetic oscillations of electrical sShubnikov–de Haas effectd and thermal conductivities are studied for graphene which represents a distinctive example of planar systems with a linear, Dirac-like spectrum of quasiparticle excitations. We show that if utmost care is taken to separate electron and phonon contributions in the thermal conductivity, the oscillations of electron thermal...

We present a study of the electrical and thermal conductivities of the d-density wave (DDW) state in an external magnetic field B in the low temperature regime and in the presence of impurities. We show that in the zero temperature limit, T → 0, the Wiedemann-Franz (WF) law remains intact. For finite T the WF law violation is possible and it is enhanced by the external field.

Silicon nanowires are patterned down to 30 nm using complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) compatible process. The electrical conductivities of n-/p-leg nanowires are extracted with the variation of width. Using this structure, Seebeck coefficients are measured. The obtained maximum Seebeck coefficient values are 122 μV/K for p-leg and -94 μV/K for n-leg. The maximum attainable power fa...

We report the response of the electrical conductivity of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) thin films on exposure to metal vapors of the early lanthanides under high vacuum conditions. We attribute the strongly enhanced conductivities observed on deposition of samarium and europium to charge transfer from the metals to the SWNT backbone, thereby leading to the first examples o...

The two silver vanadium oxide phases— Ag2V4O11 and Ag4V2O6F2—were prepared by hydrothermal synthesis. The electrical conductivity of both silver vanadate powders was determined by the powder-solutioncomposite (PSC) method. The conductivities obtained were 0.0085±0.0005 and 0.0005±0.00015 S/cm for the Ag2V4O11 and Ag4V2O6F2, respectively, the first such report for the Ag4V2O6F2 phase. The optica...