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In this study, we analyze the evolution of current-voltage characteristics of a quasi-one-dimensional TaS3 conductor under uniaxial tension in the temperature range of 150–40 K. At all temperatures, elongation is found to lead to formation of an “ultracoherent” charge density wave (CDW) the main feature of which is a sharp increase in conductivity under an electric field that is higher than the threshold: above 100 K, the transition in the dependence on ε occurs almost abruptly while, below 90 K, elongation leads to an intermediate region in which the threshold field increases sharply and is poorly defined due to weak nonlinear conductivity. The result proves the occurrence of a spatially non-uniform state of the CDW below 90 K.
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A sample in this state can be represented as a mixture of the old and UC CDW. Simulation of the mixture conductivity showed that the domains of the old and the UC CDW are connected in parallel, and not in series. Thus, the UC CDW is formed in the form of lamellas.
In the threshold voltage region, vertical spikes are visible on I–V characteristics recorded at ε > εc. Such noise spikes are observed at a sharp change in the readings of the lock-in detector and are typical for measurements in the voltage-controlled mode.
A sharp increase in conductivity was also observed in the \(E_{{\text{t}}}^{{{\text{UC}}}}\) region on I–V characteristics of this sample in an unstretched state at T < 70 K.
Please note that notation Et is mixed up at ε = 0 and ε = 0.4%. in Fig. 6 in [15].
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This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project nos. 17-02-01343 and 18-02-00931). The study of the effect of deformation on nonlinear conductivity was partly supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project No. 17-12-01519. A.V. Frolov and A.P. Orlov performed experimental studies at the expense of budget funding in the framework of the Russian State task.
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Nikitin, M.V., Frolov, A.V., Orlov, A.P. et al. Effect of Uniaxial Tension on Nonlinear Conductivity and Structural Transformation of the Charge Density Wave in TaS3 Below the Temperature of Liquid Nitrogen. J. Commun. Technol. Electron. 65, 1192–1197 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064226920100058
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