{"title":"Numerical modeling of nonohmic percolation conduction and Poole–Frenkel laws","authors":"Maria Patmiou, V. G. Karpov, G. Serpen, B. Weborg","doi":"10.1063/5.0019844","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We present a numerical model that simulates the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of materials that exhibit percolation conduction. The model consists of a two dimensional grid of exponentially different resistors in the presence of an external electric field. We obtained exponentially non-ohmic I-V characteristics validating earlier analytical predictions and consistent with multiple experimental observations of the Poole-Frenkel laws in non-crystalline materials. The exponents are linear in voltage for samples smaller than the correlation length of percolation cluster L, and square root in voltage for samples larger than L.","PeriodicalId":8438,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"arXiv: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0019844","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We present a numerical model that simulates the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of materials that exhibit percolation conduction. The model consists of a two dimensional grid of exponentially different resistors in the presence of an external electric field. We obtained exponentially non-ohmic I-V characteristics validating earlier analytical predictions and consistent with multiple experimental observations of the Poole-Frenkel laws in non-crystalline materials. The exponents are linear in voltage for samples smaller than the correlation length of percolation cluster L, and square root in voltage for samples larger than L.