Interplay between structural randomness, composite disorder, and electrical response: resonances and transient delays

R Huang1, G Korniss, S K Nayak

  • 1Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180-3590, USA.

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