[en] The electrical resistance of a metallic granular packing has been recorded at room temperature. A nearby burster between which sparks are produced, induces a decrease in the resistance of the granular packing as described in the works of Branly. Our measurements emphasize that the decrease is continuous and the resistance variations behave like a stretched exponential law due to the creation of new electrical paths as in nucleation-growth soldering processes. This behavior has been identified to be a diffusionlike process.
Disciplines :
Physics
Author, co-author :
Dorbolo, Stéphane ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > Physique statistique
Ausloos, Marcel ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > Physique statistique appliquée et des matériaux
Vandewalle, Nicolas ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > Physique statistique
Language :
English
Title :
Reexamination of the Branly effect
Publication date :
April 2003
Journal title :
Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
ISSN :
1539-3755
eISSN :
1550-2376
Publisher :
American Physical Soc, College Pk, United States - Maryland
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