Plateau region thermal conductivity

Most data pertaining to the thermal conductivity of glasses show an increase with temperature in the region above the plateau. In all the alcohols investigated, the thermal conductivity starts to increase with temperature again after passing through a smeared minimum. 

After 1444 cycles of making contact - breaking contact operations an inner atomic structure of the Co-Ge contact has altered. We suppose that a material (both Co and Ge) in a junction region has degenerated because of many mechanical and thermal processes. Thermal processes are induced by the electrical current during measurements. The main conductance plateau is shifted from 2G0 to 1.5G0. One can see conductance traces before and after the... 

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