Publications by Claudio Grimaldi

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The design of functional structures from primary building blocks requires a thorough understanding of how size, shape, and particle-particle interactions steer the assembly process. Specifically, for electrically conductive networks build from carbon nanot ...

The pyroresistive response of conductive polymer composites (CPCs) has attracted much interest because of its potential applications in many electronic devices requiring a significant responsiveness to changes in external physical parameters such as temper ...

We present an in-depth analysis of the geometrical percolation behavior in the continuum of random assemblies of hard oblate ellipsoids of revolution. Simulations were carried out by considering a broad range of aspect-ratios, from spheres up to aspect-rat ...

For about the last 60 yr the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been monitoring the sky for evidence of remotely detectable technological life beyond Earth, with no positive results to date. While the lack of detection can be attributed to the hi ...

The probability of detecting technosignatures (i.e., evidence of technological activity beyond Earth) increases with their longevity, or the time interval over which they manifest. Therefore, the assumed distribution of longevities has some bearing on the ...

The continuous progress in fabricating low-dimensional systems with large spin-orbit couplings has reached a point in which nowadays materials may display spin-orbit splitting energies ranging from a few to hundreds of meV. This situation calls for a bette ...

The very concept of high-T-c superconductivity has originated from the discovery of superconductivity in copper oxides by Bednorz and Muller in 1986. Soon after their discovery, cuprates were recognized as undoubtedly complex and radically unconventional s ...

The proposition that life can spread from one planetary system to another (interstellar panspermia) has a long history, but this hypothesis is difficult to test through observations. We develop a mathematical model that takes parameters such as the microbi ...

The tunneling-percolation mechanism of conduction in disordered conductor-insulator composites is studied for a realistic continuum model where conducting and impenetrable spherical particles are dispersed in a three-dimensional continuum insulating materi ...

The connectedness percolation threshold (phi(c)) for spherically symmetric, randomly distributed fractal aggregates is investigated as a function of the fractal dimension (d(F)) of the aggregates through a mean-field approach. A pair of aggregates (each of ...

We report a comprehensive THz, infrared and optical study of Nb-doped SrTiO3 as well as dc conductivity and Hall effect measurements. Our THz spectra at 7 K show the presence of an unusually narrow (< 2 meV) Drude peak. For all carrier concentrations the D ...

Electronic bound states around charged impurities in two-dimensional systems with structural inversion asymmetry can be described in terms of a two-dimensional hydrogen atom in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Here, the energy levels of the ...

Rashba spin-orbit coupling emerges in materials lacking of structural inversion symmetry, such as heterostructures, quantum wells, surface alloys and polar materials, just to mention few examples. It yields a coupling between the spin and momentum of elect ...

Here, we show that the conductivity of conductor-insulator composites in which electrons can tunnel from each conducting particle to all others may display both percolation and tunneling (i.e., hopping) regimes depending on few characteristics of the compo ...

We noted that the tunneling-percolation framework is quite well understood at the extreme cases of percolation-like and hopping-like behaviors but that the intermediate regime has not been previously discussed, in spite of its relevance to the intensively ...

Thick-film materials are very advantageous for piezoresistive pressure and force sensors because of ease of processing, reliability and low cost. However, their applications are restricted because standard thick-film materials require processing temperatures around 850°C, which essentially restricts them to ceramic substrates. In this work, we examine the processing and properties of thick-film dielectric and resistor compositions designed to sinter at lower temperatures, making them compatible with high-st

The search for technosignatures from hypothetical galactic civilizations is going through a new phase of intense activity. For the first time, a significant fraction of the vast search space is expected to be sampled in the foreseeable future, potentially ...

Recent developments in thick-film technology have seen the widespread introduction of lead- free alternative to traditional conductive, dielectric and overglaze compositions. Resistors, however, have lagged behind this trend, as developing balanced and well-behaved resistive compositions from scratch is significantly more involved than other thick-film materials. Bismuth- containing glasses based on the bismuth-zinc-boron-silicon oxide system, which have been studied for over 20 years, constitute a promisin

We study by simulation and theory how the addition of insulating spherical particles affects the conductivity of fluids of conducting rods, modeled by spherocylinders. The electrical connections are implemented as tunneling processes, leading to a more det ...

A vast class of disordered conducting-insulating compounds close to the percolation threshold is characterized by nonuniversal values of transport critical exponents. The lack of universality implies that critical indexes may depend on material properties ...

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A Unified View on Nanoscale Packing, Connectivity, and Conductivity of CNT Networks

Pyroresistive response of percolating conductive polymer composites

Percolative properties of hard oblate ellipsoids of revolution with a soft shell

Inferring the Rate of Technosignatures from 60 yr of Nondetection

Technosignatures Longevity and Lindy's Law

Weak-and strong-coupling limits of the two-dimensional Frohlich polaron with spin-orbit Rashba interaction

Electron-phonon driven unconventional superconductivity: The role of small Fermi energies and of nonadiabatic processes

Feasibility of Detecting Interstellar Panspermia in Astrophysical Environments

Transport exponent in a three-dimensional continuum tunneling-percolation model

Geometric Percolation of Spherically Symmetric Fractal Aggregates

Electron-phonon interaction and charge carrier mass enhancement in SrTiO3

Energy levels of a two-dimensional hydrogen atom with spin-orbit Rashba interaction

Two-dimensional Rashba metals: Unconventional low-temperature transport properties

Percolation-to-hopping crossover in conductor-insulator composites

Solution of the tunneling-percolation problem in the nanocomposite regime

Development of low-temperature thick-film materials for piezoresistive sensors

Bayesian approach to SETI

Lead-free low-firing thick-film resistors based on bismuth glasses and ruthenium oxide

Depletion-interaction effects on the tunneling conductivity of nanorod suspensions

Study of electrical properties of piezoresistive pastes and determination of the electrical transport