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Mozurkewich, George Link, Gordon Lee 2011-05-04T19:58:27Z 2011-05-04T19:58:27Z 10000-01-01 1990 The conduction noise from sliding charge-density waves (CDWs) is studied in NbSe3 and Ko.3Mo03 (blue bronze). A statistical analysis of the fluctuations in the noise is presented: the probability distributions of the fluctuating spectral components, the power spectra of these fluctuations (i.e. the second spectra), and their correlation functions all indicate that the ac signal accompanying CDW conduction is Gaussian noise. An important consequence of the Gaussian statistics is that the size of the conduction noise is completely characterized by the second moment of its distribution, the rms voltage. This property is instrumental in making reliable measurements of the conduction noise size. Exploiting this reliability, further experiments characterize the behavior of the conduction noise rms voltage as a function of electrical bias and temperature (in both materials), and specimen length (in blue bronze). The principal results of these investigations are: the size of the noise as a function of conduction noise frequency fo increases and then saturates; saturation occurs when fo exceeds the material's dielectric relaxation frequency; and the size of the noise in blue bronze increases linearly with specimen length. The principal conclusions of this work are: randomness is central to CDW dynamics; the rms voltage is a reliable and precise characterization of the size of the conduction noise; dielectric relaxation is an important limiting process in CDW sliding; the conduction noise is generated throughout the entire volume of the blue bronze crystals and is intrinsic to CDW conduction; and the length of temporally phase-coherent domains in blue bronze (at 77K) is as long as the specimens themselves. Submitted by Carolyn Mead (cmead2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-04T19:58:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 1990_link.pdf: 1397228 bytes, checksum: dc7d9a647275f3d4197ed1f5ab4721a2 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-04T19:58:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 1990_link.pdf: 1397228 bytes, checksum: dc7d9a647275f3d4197ed1f5ab4721a2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1990 Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:12:21-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: Thesis Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Carolyn Mead (cmead2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-04T19:58:27Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Thesis U of I Only 3478336 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18915 en 1990 Gordon Lee Link conduction noise sliding charge-density waves Gaussian noise Conduction noise in sliding charge-density waves Dissertation / Thesis text Physics Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.