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| Volume 2, Issue 01 - 2006 |
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METAL-DIELECTRIC NANOCOMPOSITES WITH
AMORPHOUS STRUCTURE |
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| Pages 23-34 |
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| I.V.Zolotukhin1, Yu.E.Kalinin1,
A.T.Ponomarenko2, V.G.Shevchenko2,
A.V.Sitnikov1, O.V.Stognei1,
O.Figovsky3 |
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1 Voronezh State Technical University, Voronezh, Russia
2 N.S.Enikolopov Institute of Synthetic Polymeric
Materials,117393 Moscow, Profsoyuznaya 70, Russia
3 Israeli Research Centre “Polymate”, Haifa, Israel |
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| Received 21 December
2005; accepted 5 April 2006 |
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A brief survey of works on electrical
properties of metal-dielectric nanocomposites with amorphous
structure is presented. The concentration dependences
of electrical resistance of composites are S -shaped, as
follows from the model of percolation theory of conductivity
with threshold at concentrations ~ 40-60 at.% of metallic
component. The analysis of temperature dependences in
temperature range 300 – 973 K showed that in the process of
structural relaxation and crystallization of the amorphous
phase electrical resistance of composites above the
threshold decreases and increases for composites below the
threshold. It is found that when the content of metallic
phase is below the percolation threshold, in temperature
range 77 – 180 K prevailing mechanism of charge transfer is
variable range hopping conduction over localized states near
the Fermi level. Further increase in temperature is
accompanied by the transition of the mechanism of
conductivity from Mott’s law: ln(σ) ~ (1/T)1/4 to the
dependence ln(σ) ~ (1/T)1/2. Magnetic and magnetotransport
properties of nanocomposites are also examined. |
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