Reduction of contact resistance at terminations of bismuth wire arrays

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Hasegawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Ishikawa, Yoshiaki ^a   Shirai, Hajime ^a   Morita, Hiroyuki ^b   Kurokouchi, Akio ^b   Wada, Kentarou ^b   Komine, Takashi ^c   Nakamura, Hiroaki ^d  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Saitama Industrial Technology Center   (Japan)

^c IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR FUSION SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; COPPER; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC WIRE; ELECTRODES; IONS; PLATING; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SAMPLING; SEEBECK EFFECT;

CONTACT RESISTANCE; ION PLATING; PROBE ELECTRODES; WIRE ARRAYS;

BISMUTH;

EID: 28444448047     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2126952     Document Type: Review

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