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This a outline of a review of metrological issues related to nanoscale electrical transport measurement presented at CPEM-2014. A brief overview of the instrumentation used to measure electrical transport properties at the nanoscale is presented and a few metrological issues are discussed.
A growing number of smart energy meters and electric charging stations have sparked a demand for a high precision, low value shunt resistors to measure the flow of electrical current. This paper investigates the possibility of trimming 100 micro ohms Manganin shunt resistors with tolerance of 5 percent to improve their accuracy and performance for use in smart energy meters. In theory, reducing the...
Most carbon nanomaterials are touted for their unusual conductive or semiconductive properties. In this paper, we compare the many-layered graphene oxide (GO) and GO-silver nanocomposite “papers” to elucidate their unusual resistive properties. We have observed significant nonlinearities in resistivity, its dependence on temperature, and current-induced effects on the resistivity of these materials.
This paper discusses measurement of temperature on busbar connection based on contact resistance and plating material in relation to the value of contact resistance. This study is intended to prevent failure when busbar connection is attached. The failure of the electrical connection can occur due to bad contact so that the contact resistance is increased, high losses, overheating, and it can even...
The work described in this conference talk follows up recent work on the development of a test for lack of field emission orthodoxy. There are three stages of discussion involved. First, the results of applying the test to 17 selected published FN plots are reported. About half fail the test, showing that related published field enhancement factor (FEF) values are unreliable. In several cases, this...
Surface resistance measurements on insulating solids are usually performed by measuring the current induced when an electric field tangential to the surface is applied. The measured current results from the addition of currents flowing along the surface, and also partly in the volume. In this paper, surface current measurements on an alumina-filled epoxy resin are performed under varying conditions...
Contact resistance of electrostatic dissipative materials is typically higher than the resistance of the sample in a measurement circuit. In this study we have compared electrodes and estimated uncertainties in qualifications of solid planar materials. Concentric ring electrodes had significantly higher errors and higher uncertainties in comparison with the bar electrodes.
The paper outlines the manufacturing technology of different silver-metal and silver-metal oxide composite materials to be used in contacts of low-voltage switches. There were conducted tests of the electrical properties of contacts made of eight different composite materials and hard silver. There was determined their resistance to arc erosion and static welding. There were also measured changes...
LSMO thin films materials have a strong interaction between their electrical and magnetic properties that could be translated into innovative tunable components. The knowledge of the electroactive and magnetoactive properties of these materials is essential for modeling and design of their novel based- devices. The activity of these materials can be described by their electro/magento resistance and...
Tunability is being driven by a number of very interesting enabling technologies. This work demonstrates the feasibility of ferromagnetic thin film tunability at ambient temperature for radio frequency applications. A 400 nm thick LSMO thin film is formed by the chemical solution deposition (CSD) on the top of indium tin oxide (ITO)/SiO2/Si heterostructure. Interdigitated capacitor metallization is...
A giant magnetoresistive (GMR) head in tape recording systems is affected by the electrostatic discharge (ESD) between the sensor and magnetic shields. Pt-doped Al2O3 was developed as a dissipative gap-material to reduce the ESD current. Pt chips were sputtered on an alumina target to vary the film resistance. The decay time of a charged plate on Pt-doped Al2O3 was measured for various film thicknesses...
An on-chip buck converter with 3D chip stacking is proposed and the operation is experimentally verified. The manufactured converter achieves a maximum power efficiency of 62% for an output current of 70mA with a switching frequency of 200MHz and a 2x2mm on-chip LC output filter in 0.35mum CMOS. The use of glass epoxy interposer to increase the maximum power efficiency up to 71.3%, and the power efficiency...
In this paper, the method of Spatial Fourier Transform has been used to investigate the pattern formation dynamics in a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) system. With this method, patterns formed in the DBD system can be transformed into smooth frequency spectrum. The frequency constitution of discharge pattern can be analyzed. In our experiment mixed gas of 96% Ar and 4% air at 0.9 atm is used as...
Cooling is important to keep the temperatures of the highly integrated silicon electronic devices and power devices e.g. power MOSFET, IGBT. Yamaguchi et al. have proposed a new scheme to cool down the devices by its own current named ldquoself-cooling devicerdquo, in which the cooling process uses Peltier effect. In the proposed scheme, we should use the materials that have high thermal conductivity,...
The present work aims at studying the cooling performance of a thermoelectric device that integrated with integrated heat spreader (IHS) on a flip-chip plastic ball grid array (FC-PBGA) package. The new thermoelectric device herein is fabricated on the metal substrates by flip-chip assembly process. Thermal performance of the new package was comprehensive studied. The thermal resistances of IHS with/without...
The real time monitoring and control of resistance spot welds is a problem of critical importance in automotive and many other manufacturing industries. However, till this date, there are no reliable, low-cost, non-destructive techniques for predicting the size and strength of the weld nuggets in real time. This paper investigates the usage of voltage, current, and force data for the above tasks....
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