Multiprobe experiments under high pressure: resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, heat capacity, and thermopower

D Jaccard1, K Sengupta

  • 1DPMC, University of Geneva, 24 Quai E.-Ansermet, 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland.

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