Model of transport nonuniversality in thick-film resistors
C. GrimaldiInstitut de Production et Robotique, LPM, EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, SwitzerlandT. MaederInstitut de Production et Robotique, LPM, EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, SwitzerlandP. RyserInstitut de Production et Robotique, LPM, EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, SwitzerlandS. SträsslerInstitut de Production et Robotique, LPM, EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
2003en
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Abstract
We propose a model of transport in thick-film resistors which naturally explains the observed nonuniversal values of the conductance exponent t extracted in the vicinity of the percolation transition. Essential ingredients of the model are the segregated microstructure typical of thick-film resistors and tunneling between the conducting grains. Nonuniversality sets in as a consequence of wide distribution of interparticle tunneling distances.
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