Authors: Maria Prudenziati Magdalena Lassinantti Gualtieri
Publish Date: 2008/07/04
Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 385-394
Abstract
Five laboratories were asked to deposit Ni and Ni20Cr powders to obtain resistors we studied their electrical properties in the temperature range 20500 °C and interpreted the results in the light of their microstructure Resistors sprayed from Ni powders consist of NiO x “islands” embedded in a Ni matrix The temperature dependence of resistance TCR is in perfect agreement with that of pure Ni indicating that the matrix determines the electrical transport Annealing at temperatures from 200 to 400 °C results in an irreversible decrease of resistance A multiphase microstructure is observed in resistors prepared from 80Ni20Cr powders The major phase in these resistors is a NiCr alloy but with a NiCr ratio larger than 8020 Minor amounts of metal oxides are also detected The TCR in these samples spans from 180 ppm/°C to 2830 ppm/°C and is attributed to different degree of oxidation and segregation of the metals in the alloy
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