DocumentCode
2009050
Title
Transport in opal structures
Author
Sofo, J.O. ; Mahan, G.D.
Author_Institution
Centro Atomico Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina
fYear
1999
fDate
Aug. 29 1999-Sept. 2 1999
Firstpage
626
Lastpage
629
Abstract
Opals are structures composed of the closed packing of spheres in the size range of nano-to-micro meter. They are sintered to have small necks at the points of contact. We have solved the diffusion problem in such structures. The results make possible the calculation of the change in the thermal and electrical conductivity of opal structures, compared to the neck size and mean-free path of the excitations.
Keywords
aluminium compounds; electrical conductivity; minerals; nanostructured materials; thermal conductivity; closed packing of spheres; electrical conductivity; mean-free path; opal structures; sintered; small necks; thermal conductivity; Conducting materials; Contacts; Glass; Laboratories; Lattices; Neck; Physics; Semiconductor materials; Solid state circuits; Thermal conductivity;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Thermoelectrics, 1999. Eighteenth International Conference on
Conference_Location
Baltimore, MD, USA
ISSN
1094-2734
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5451-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICT.1999.843467
Filename
843467
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