On the nature of the electrical conductance of organic polyethynylpolyarene-base semiconductors

Author(s):  
V. G. Kostrovskii ◽  
E. D. Litman ◽  
T. G. Shishmakova ◽  
I. L. Kotlyarevskii ◽  
M. I. Bardamova



Author(s):  
Richard Macey ◽  
Tanya Walsh ◽  
Philip Riley ◽  
Anne-Marie Glenny ◽  
Helen V Worthington ◽  
...  


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bijaya B. Karki ◽  
Dipta B. Ghosh ◽  
Shun-ichiro Karato

AbstractWater (H2O) as one of the most abundant fluids present in Earth plays crucial role in the generation and transport of magmas in the interior. Though hydrous silicate melts have been studied extensively, the experimental data are confined to relatively low pressures and the computational results are still rare. Moreover, these studies imply large differences in the way water influences the physical properties of silicate magmas, such as density and electrical conductivity. Here, we investigate the equation of state, speciation, and transport properties of water dissolved in Mg1−xFexSiO3 and Mg2(1−x)Fe2xSiO4 melts (for x = 0 and 0.25) as well as in its bulk (pure) fluid state over the entire mantle pressure regime at 2000–4000 K using first-principles molecular dynamics. The simulation results allow us to constrain the partial molar volume of the water component in melts along with the molar volume of pure water. The predicted volume of silicate melt + water solution is negative at low pressures and becomes almost zero above 15 GPa. Consequently, the hydrous component tends to lower the melt density to similar extent over much of the mantle pressure regime irrespective of composition. Our results also show that hydrogen diffuses fast in silicate melts and enhances the melt electrical conductivity in a way that differs from electrical conduction in the bulk water. The speciation of the water component varies considerably from the bulk water structure as well. Water is dissolved in melts mostly as hydroxyls at low pressure and as –O–H–O–, –O–H–O–H– and other extended species with increasing pressure. On the other hand, the pure water behaves as a molecular fluid below 15 GPa, gradually becoming a dissociated fluid with further compression. On the basis of modeled density and conductivity results, we suggest that partial melts containing a few percent of water may be gravitationally trapped both above and below the upper mantle-transition region. Moreover, such hydrous melts can give rise to detectable electrical conductance by means of electromagnetic sounding observations.



1958 ◽  
Vol 62 (12) ◽  
pp. 1479-1482 ◽  
Author(s):  
George J. Janz ◽  
C. T. Brown ◽  
H. J. Gardner ◽  
C. Solomons


2021 ◽  
Vol 132 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-137
Author(s):  
Alexander Pokutsa ◽  
Andriy Zaborovsky ◽  
Pawel Bloniarz ◽  
Tomasz Paczeŝniak ◽  
Dariya Maksym ◽  
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1994 ◽  
Vol 345 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Kretz ◽  
D. Pribat ◽  
P. Legagneux ◽  
F. Plais ◽  
O. Huet ◽  
...  

AbstractHigh purity amorphous silicon layers were obtained by ultrahigh vacuum (millitorr range) chemical vapor deposition (UHVCVD) from disilane gas. The crystalline fraction of the films was monitored by in situ electrical conductance measurements performed during isothermal annealings. The experimental conductance curves were fitted with an analytical expression, from which the characteristic crystallisation time, tc, was extracted. Using the activation energy for the growth rate extracted from our previous work, we were able to determine the activation energy for the nucleation rate for the analysed-films. For the films including small crystallites we have obtained En ∼ 2.8 eV, compared to En ∼ 3.7 eV for the completely amorphous ones.



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