Slow conductance relaxations: Distinguishing the electron glass from extrinsic mechanisms

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Ovadyahu, Z ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 57149128900     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.195120     Document Type: Article

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51. This however is based on experiments in the liquid-helium temperature range where τ is only weakly temperature dependent. It remains to be seen whether long relaxation times are achievable even in systems with low carrier concentration when cooled to ultralow temperatures (while still of measurable resistance).