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Preparation of highly conducting Ag by spark discharge. II. Evidence for quantization of resistance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2006

P. Arendt
P. Arendt*
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Parkallee 6, 15517 Fürstenwalde, Germany
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Abstract

Recent experimental studies of electrical conduction in a specially prepared silver-based material, across which a spark has been passed, are interpreted through electrical conduction via charge density waves (CDWs) moving in a dc electric field along quasi-one-dimensional chains of Ag+-ions inside the branches of the discharge pattern engraved in the material by the spark. Here we present experimental evidence that the resistance along a number N of branches connected in parallel increases in quantized steps of height $h/2e^{2}N$ with increasing voltage applied across the branches

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The European Physical Journal - Applied Physics , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , November 2006 , pp. 149 - 156
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© EDP Sciences, 2006

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