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Anomalous thermopower and Nernst effect in : entropy-current loss in precursor state
The heavy-electron superconductor CeCoIn exhibits a puzzling precursor
state above its superconducting critical temperature at = 2.3 K. The
thermopower and Nernst signal are anomalous. Below 15 K, the entropy current of
the electrons undergoes a steep decrease reaching 0 at .
Concurrently, the off-diagonal thermoelectric current is
enhanced. The delicate sensitivity of the zero-entropy state to field implies
phase coherence over large distances. The prominent anomalies in the
thermoelectric current contrast with the relatively weak effects in the
resistivity and magnetization.Comment: 5 figures, 4 page
The Lorenz number in CeCoIn inferred from the thermal and charge Hall currents
The thermal Hall conductivity and Hall conductivity
in CeCoIn are used to determine the Lorenz number at low temperature . This enables the separation of the observed
thermal conductivity into its electronic and non-electronic parts. We uncover
evidence for a charge-neutral, field-dependent thermal conductivity, which we
identify with spin excitations. At low , these excitations dominate the
scattering of charge carriers. We show that suppression of the spin excitations
in high fields leads to a steep enhancement of the electron mean-free-path,
which leads to an interesting scaling relation between the magnetoresistance,
thermal conductivity and .Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures Intro para slightly lengthened. Added 2 new re
Reply to ``Comment on `Insulating Behavior of -DNA on the Micron Scale' "
In our experiment, we found that the resistance of vacuum-dried -DNA
exceeds at 295 K. Bechhoefer and Sen have raised a number of
objections to our conclusion. We provide counter arguments to support our
original conclusion.Comment: 1 page reply to comment, 1 figur
Optimisation of Fine Pitch Contactor and Test Board for QFN Package
Fine pitch contactor describes a contactor with smaller air gap between the contact pins. It is used for testing small portable devices. This work presents the optimised way of designing the 0.4 mm pitch contactor and test board for QFN package. The signal integrity of fine pitch test contactor has become a concern due to the small air-gap between the pins that leads to signal crosstalk and impedance mismatch issues. The same challenge had been seen when designing the fine pitch test board because of the requirement to meet 0.4 mm pitch for typical hand-held devices. It restricts the trace routing with typical design rules at the contactor mounting area due to the limited spaces. This would bring to impedance discontinuity and crosstalk effect. Therefore, optimised design rules on the fine pitch contactor and test board are necessary. Full-wave modelling and system level simulation were demonstrated to study the fine pitch design rules. While the full-wave modelling was to construct the contactor and test board components, the system level simulation was intended to study the signal transmission when propagating from one component to another. Overall, designing the fine pitch contactor requires extra study on the signal integrity and layout design. This paper presents a method to study and design the fine pitch contactor design. It reports the test board to achieve minimum losses and distortion test system for functional testing. Our simulation results for finepitch contactor model show that the return loss is less than 12 dB at 4 GHz
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