Electrical switching in benzidine-DDQ under pressure

Ravindran, T and Subramanyam, SV (1991) Electrical switching in benzidine-DDQ under pressure. In: Bulletin of Materials Science, 14 (5). pp. 1205-1211.

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Abstract

The effect of pressure on non-ohmic conduction and electrical switching in the charge transfer complex benzidine-DDQ has been studied up to a pressure of 7·66 GPa at a temperature of 300K. Pulsed I-V measurements reveal heating contribution to non-ohmicity and switching. At high electric fields (∼ 3 × 103 V/cm), the sample switches from high resistance OFF state of several kiloohms to low resistance ON state of several ohms. Temperature dependence of conductivity of ON state show semiconducting behaviour with very low activation energy.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Bulletin of Materials Science
Publisher:	Indian Academy of Sciences
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Indian Academy of Sciences.
Keywords:	High pressure;non-ohmic conduction;electrical switching; benzidine-DDQ.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	30 Nov 2010 09:19
Last Modified:	30 Nov 2010 09:19
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/33761

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