Critical behavior of the electrical transport properties in a tunneling-percolation system

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 12196-12199

  Balberg, I ^c   Sunshine, S A ^a   Heaney, M B ^a  

^a Raychem Corporation   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 0000460831     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.12196     Document Type: Article

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