Electrical resistivity is a fundamental parameter of metals or electrical conductors. Since resistivity is a function of temperature, in order to completely understand the behavior of metals, a temperature dependent theoretical model is needed. A model based on physics principles has recently been developed to obtain an equation that relates electrical resistivity to temperature. This equation ...

The COPROD2 magnetotelluric (MT) data set obtained over the North American central plains electromagnetic anomaly in the Canadian shield features a predominantly onedimensional response at periods shorter than 14 s and a predominantly two-dimensional response at longer periods (to 910 s). A subset of the COPROD2 data consisting of both strikeparallel and strike-perpendicular components of the M...

The probability tomography approach developed for the scalar resistivity method is here extended to the 2D tensorial apparent resistivity acquisition mode. The rotational invariant derived from the trace of the apparent resistivity tensor is considered, since it gives on the datum plane anomalies confined above the buried objects. Firstly, a departure function is introduced as the difference be...

magnetotelluric (mt) method is an electromagnetic method which provides information about subsurface conductivity structures using earth's natural electromagnetic fields. static shift is one of disorders arising from shallow conductors; therefore static shift must be corrected as one of mt data processing steps. in the absence of sufficient information about the near surface distortions, w...

We have performed temperature-dependent electrical transport measurements on known structure single wall carbon nanotubes at low bias. The experiments show a superlinear increase in nanotube resistivity with temperature, which is in contradiction with the linear dependence expected from nanotube acoustic-phonon scattering. The measured electron mean free path is also much lower than expected, e...

Macroscopic resistivity measurements have been performed on TiC/Al2O3 random mixtures submitted to uniaxial compression (0–95 kN). Such a random mixture exhibits an insulator-conductor transition which appears at increasing force while decreasing the conductive composition of the TiC/Al2O3 mixture. It is demonstrated that the conductivity behavior may be understood in the framework of a site pe...

Temperature dependent optical conductivities and dc resistivity of c-axis oriented superconducting (T(c) = 39.6 K) MgB2 films (approximately 450 nm) have been measured. The normal state ab-plane optical conductivities can be described by the Drude model with a temperature independent Drude plasma frequency of omega(p,D) = 13 600+/-100 cm(-1) or 1.68+/-0.01 eV. The normal state resistivity is fi...

A 2D nonlinear model for the electrical potential in the edge plasma in a tokamak generates a stiff problem due to the low resistivity in the direction parallel to the magnetic field lines. An asymptotic-preserving method based on a micromacro decomposition is studied in order to have a well-posed problem, even when the parallel resistivity goes to 0. Numerical tests with a finite difference sc...

This is a general review of anomalous resistivity with emphasis on its applicability in space and more specifically on ionospheric plasmas. It is addressed to the general ionospheric community rather than the specialist. Therefore a substantial amount of rigor has been sacrificed in favor of simplified physical pictures. However, several prescriptions are presented, on the basis of which one ca...

There is low resistivity contrast between reservoir zone and host formation in geothermal fields, especially in areas where the technique of water injection is being carried out. Therefore, in low contrast area, permittivity can be one of the important reservoir indicators besides resistivity. In this study, one EM tomography method of reconstructing the resistivity and permittivity from electr...