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Lead chalcogenides are the promising thermoelectric (TE) materials having narrow band gap. The present work investigates the TE behaviour of PbSe in the temperature range 300-500 K. The transport properties of the sample have been studied…

We calculate the temperature dependent conductivity of graphene in the presence of randomly distributed Coulomb impurity charges arising from the temperature dependent screening of the Coulomb disorder without any phonons. The purely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-22 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

It is shown that in the presence of strong magnetic fields, spin-orbit scattering causes a sharp increase in the effective density of states in the variable-range hopping regime when temperature decreases. This effect leads to an…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Yigal Meir , Boris L. Altshuler

We investigate theoretically the effect of a finite electric field on the resistivity of a disordered one-dimensional system in the variable-range hopping regime. We find that at low fields the transport is inhibited by rare fluctuations in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. M. Fogler , R. S. Kelley

Electrical conductivity (sigma_dc) of the cellular Si/SiC ceramic composites has been measured over a temperature range 25-1073 K while the thermoelectric power (S) has been measured over 25-300 K. Remarkably, these cellular compounds…

The ionic conduction properties of the technologically important two-dimensional (2D) layered battery material Na2Mn3O7, with exceptional small-voltage hysteresis between charge and discharge curves, have been investigated as a function of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-24 Bikash Saha , A. K. Bera , S. M. Yusuf

By developing a two-dimensional (2D) full quantum simulation, the attributes of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNTFETs) in different temperatures have been comprehensively investigated. Simulations have been performed by…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-07 Ali Naderi , S. Mohammad Noorbakhsh , Hossein Elahipanah

We consider wires near a zero temperature transition between superconducting and metallic states. The critical theory obeys hyperscaling, which leads to a universal frequency, temperature, and length dependence of the conductance; quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Subir Sachdev , Philipp Werner , Matthias Troyer

The depth distribution of the transport properties as well as the temperature dependence of the low field magneto-conductance for several c-axis oriented GaN nanowall network samples grown with different average wall-widths are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 H. P. Bhasker , Varun Thakur , S. M. Shivaprasad , S. Dhar

The conductivity of a granular metal or an array of quantum dots usually has the temperature dependence associated with variable range hopping within the soft Coulomb gap of density of states. This is difficult to explain because neutral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jingshan Zhang , Boris I. Shklovskii

Expressions for dependences of the pre-exponential factor \sigma_3 and the thermal activation energy \epsilon_3 of hopping electric conductivity of holes via boron atoms on the boron atom concentration N and the compensation ratio K are…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-09-06 N. A. Poklonski , S. A. Vyrko , A. G. Zabrodskii

Temperature-dependent resistivity of graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is investigated. We observe in low mobility CVD graphene device a strong insulating behavior at low temperatures and a metallic behavior at high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-16 J. Heo , H. J. Chung , Sung-Hoon Lee , H. Yang , D. H. Seo , J. K. Shin , U-In Chung , S. Seo , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Millimeter-wave transmission measurements have been performed in amorphous niobium-silicon alloy samples where the DC conductivity follows the critical temperature dependence $\sigma_{dc} \propto T^{1/2}$. The real part of the conductivity…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Hok-Ling Lee , John P. Carini , David V. Baxter , George Gruner

We have measured the optical reflectivity $R(\omega)$ of the quasi one-dimensional conductor $NbSe_{3}$ from the far infrared up to the ultraviolet between 10 and 300 $K$ using light polarized along and normal to the chain axis. We find a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Perucchi , L. Degiorgi , R. E. Thorne

We performed terahertz magneto-optical spectroscopy of FeSe thin film to elucidate the charge carrier dynamics. The measured diagonal (longitudinal) and off-diagonal (Hall) conductivity spectra are well reproduced by two-carrier Drude…

The transport characteristics of a disordered MoS$_2$ nanoflake in the insulator regime are studied by electrical and magnetotransport measurements. The layered MoS$_2$ nanoflake is exfoliated from a bulk MoS$_2$ crystal and the conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-11 Jianhong Xue , Shaoyun Huang , Ji-Yin Wang , H. Q. Xu

We investigate the temperature dependence of the conductivity in ballistic graphene using Landauer transport theory. We obtain results which are qualitatively in agreement with many features recently observed in transport measurements on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-12 Markus Mueller , Matthias Braeuninger , Bjoern Trauzettel

We have measured the thermal conductivity along the c-axis, \k{appa}||c, parallel to ferromagnetic spin-chains of single crystals of the S = 1/2 quasi-one-dimensional spin system CsCuCl3 in magnetic fields up to 14 T, in order to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-30 T. Kawamata , H. Sudo , Y. Matsuoka , K. Naruse , M. Ohno , T. Sasaki , Y. Koike

Freely suspended metallic single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) exhibit reduced current carrying ability compared to those lying on substrates, and striking negative differential conductance (NDC) at low electric fields. Theoretical analysis…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric Pop , David Mann , Jien Cao , Qian Wang , Kenneth Goodson , Hongjie Dai

The mobility of electrons and holes in silicon depends on many parameters. Two of them are the electric field and the temperature. It has been observed previously that the mobility in the transition region between ohmic transport and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-08-16 Julian Becker , Eckhart Fretwurst , Robert Klanner