Revisiting the percolation phenomena in dielectric composites with conducting fillers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Lin ^a   Bass, Patrick ^a   Cheng, Z Y ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCOMPOSITES;

CRITICAL PHENOMENON; DIELECTRIC COMPOSITES; EFFECTIVE DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; NANOCOMPOSITE SYSTEMS; PERCOLATION BEHAVIOR; PERCOLATION PHENOMENON; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; UNIFORM MICROSTRUCTURE;

SOLVENTS;

EID: 84905158511     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4892000     Document Type: Article

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