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Excimer Laser Induced Electrical Conductivity in Polymers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 1992
Abstract
The electrical conductivity of high temperature polymers (i.e. polyimide) has been changedpermanently from 10−17 Ω−1 cm−1 to 10 Ω−1 cm−1 by excimer laser irradiation. The conduction mechanism is found to be phonon assisted variable range hopping between small (∼10 nm) carbon clusters that form a macroscopic percolation cluster. The critical concentration of carbon clusters is found to be Pc = 0.24 ± 0.02 and the critical exponent of the insulator-conductor transition is t = 1.97 ± 0.25.
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