We present a multidisciplinary approach for characterization of a crude oil-contaminated site (Trecate, Italy), integrating geophysical data, such as subsoil electrical potential (in millivolts) and electrical resistivity (in ohm meters) distribution, with hydrogeological and bio-chemical data. Self-potential measurements have been evaluated together with active geoelectrical measurements and h...

Since the last few decades, electrical methods have been widely used in geophysical surveying to obtain high-resolution information about subsurface conditions. Resistivity is an important parameter in judging the ground properties, especially detecting buried objects of anomalous conductivity. Electrical DC resistivity sounding is the commonly used technique to obtain the apparent 2-D resistiv...

The Coulomb interaction between electrons of opposite spin orientations in a metal or in a doped semiconductor results in a negative off-diagonal component of the electrical resistivity matrix—the so-called “spindrag resistivity.” It is generally quite difficult to separate the spin-drag contribution from more conventional mechanisms of resistivity. In this paper I discuss two methods to accomp...

Effects of periodic curvature on the the electrical resistivity of corrugated semiconductor films are theoretically considered. The presence of a curvature-induced potential affects the motion of electrons confined to the thin curved film, resulting in a significant resistivity enhancement at specific values of two geometric parameters: the amplitude and period of the surface corrugation. The m...

The numerical analysis of electrical properties involved in transport mechanism such as carrier concentration, carrier mobility, carrier effective mass, electrical resistivity and electrical conductivity for some rare earth chalcogenides is discussed. The formulae are derived and used to obtain numerical values of these electrical parameters, which are useful to describe the electrical behavior...

A thin, insulating layer with high electrical resistivity is vital to achieving high performance of powder magnetic cores. Using layer-by-layer deposition of silica nanosheets or colloidal silica over insulating layers composed of strontium phosphate and boron oxide, we succeeded in fabricating insulating layers with high electrical resistivity on iron powder particles, which were subsequently ...

recent studies show that electromagnetic methods are robust and widespread geophysical methods that can be employed to delineate the electrical conductivity of earth materials. in this paper magnetotelluric and radio-magnetotelluric methods have been used to map the earth's structures. the magnetotelluric (mt) method is a frequency-domain electromagnet (em) sounding technique used to inves...

The cost associated with the application of large volume of cement and synthetic admixtures was one of the major drawbacks of Self Compacting Concrete (SCC), which can be reduced by the use of supplementary cementitious materials (SCM). When the demand of cement reduces, the release of carbon dioxide (CO2) from cement industries will come down, which has a positive impact on global w...

The compound CeCuAs2 is found to exhibit negative temperature (T) coefficient of electrical resistivity (ρ) under ambient pressure conditions in the entire T-range of investigation (45 mK to 300 K), even in the presence of high magnetic fields. Preliminary tunneling spectroscopic measurements indicate the existence of a psuedo-gap at least at low temperatures, thereby implying that this compoun...

Electrical resistivity was used in this test methodology to estimate the relative precipitate density AA7075. Various electrical parameters were explored determine difference between pulsed and DC-type currents. No these conditions could be distinguished. Furthermore, an electroplastic effect not needed explain results effects are likely caused by purely joule heating.