Electrical transport in graphene with different interface conditions

The commercial and regional imagery of big things: Establishing a foundation for the study of oversized roadside landmarks

“…A small number of Big Things-centric texts have been published since the 1980s, but these have focused on specific geographic regions, or are travel guides written by amateur enthusiasts. There are guides of varying breadth and quality for Australian (Amdur, 1981; Clark, 2004; Scutt, 2009), Canadian (Robideau and Day, 1988), and American (Andrews, 1984; Butko and Butko, 2005; Peterson, 2008; Wilkins et al, 1992) Big Things, as well as Karpan and Karpan's Saskatchewan-specific text (2006), Marling's Colossus of Roads (1984) which focuses on a range of roadside attractions in America's Mid-West, and Heimann and Georges’ California Crazy (2001). None of these, except for the opening pages of Marling's work (1984), Gebhard's introduction for California Crazy (2001), and Stockwell's introduction for Big Things: Australia's Amazing Roadside Attractions (2004), offer much insight into the historical or theoretical underpinnings of the phenomenon.…”

“…The highway network gradually extended across the US between the First and Second World Wars, but it was not until the 1950s that this infrastructure became sufficiently reliable—and cars grew increasingly affordable—to facilitate widespread road-based vacations. The post-war era was also when fiberglass became widely available, and manufacturing firms such as California-based Prewitt Fiberglass (later renamed International Fiberglass) began creating giant three-dimensional objects for businesses to capture the attention of motorists (Butko and Butko, 2005: 15–16). While some of the same influences extended north across the border, Canada's highway network was slower to develop (Davis, 1986: 121–23) and this hindered the spread of Big Things.…”

“…One of the reasons for this division between US and Canadian/Australian Big Things likely stems from the American post-war explosion of the phenomenon. Manufacturing firms like International Fiberglass marketed giant generic characters known as ‘Muffler Men’ and ‘Uniroyal Gals’ at trade shows across the US from the 1960s (Butko and Butko, 2005: 15–16). These men (mechanics, cowboys, lumberjacks, farmers) and women (bikini-clad but apparently jobless) held wrenches, axes, car tires and other automobile products (Figure 6).…”

Sheet Resistance and Magnetoresistance in Polycrystalline CVD Graphenes

“…At the same time, studies of the effect of the substrate type, where graphene is transferred or deposited, on the conductivity of graphene give contradictory results. For example, in [6], it was reported that the electrical conductivity of graphene sheets is independent on the type of substrate used, while the authors of [7] demonstrated the dependence of electrical conductivity on the type of substrate. However, it is difficult to draw an unambiguous conclusion from these studies, which reason makes a greater contributionmethods of graphene synthesis, substrate itself, or the conditions for the transfer of graphene to it.…”

Зависимость Подвижности Носителей Заряда В Гибридных Наноструктурах На Интерфейсе Графена С Молекулярными Ионами От Их Зарядовой Плотности

“…Интерес к исследованиям влияния интерфейса на электрический транспорт в гибридных наноструктурах, формируемых на границе графена с ансамблями молекулярных ионов в GFETs с затворными изоляторами в виде ионных растворов, в первую очередь, связан с важностью таких наноструктур для создания химических и биологических сенсоров [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Несмотря на этот интерес, в настоящее время, в описании электрического транспорта в указанных наноструктурах существует ряд нерешенных проблем.…”