How to Use resistivity in a Sentence

resistivity

noun

• There is also a nice journal article that looks at resistivity of aluminum.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2014
• Substances such as ice have high resistivity, meaning electricity doesn’t flow through them easily.
  — Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2018
• Devices using electric resistivity and ground-penetrating radar were used to take a closer look at the site without disturbing the graves.
  — CBS News, 4 Apr. 2022
• While no one has been able to go inside the tunnel yet, the discovery was made through a method known as electrical resistivity tomography, which creates subterranean images.
  — National Geographic, 7 July 2017
• Those maps were combined with resistivity measurements and, later, the magnetization data from bore samples.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
• After finding the resistivity, the team calculated the grounding resistance for a single-rod scenario (as a means of validation).
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2022
• Electrical resistivity tomography drone imagery, at the bottom, and a map of the site of a possible mass grave at the Jungfernhof concentration camp.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2023
• This setup allowed the team to directly compare performance and show how edge passivation affects high-resistivity wafer behavior.
  — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 14 Feb. 2026
• Early experiments showed that high-resistivity wafers often underperform compared to standard wafers.
  — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 14 Feb. 2026
• Starting in 1990, researchers began finding evidence of a quantum nature to the linear resistivity.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2018
• The tool discriminates between different materials based on something called resistivity—a measure of how easily electrical current can flow.
  — Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2018
• Furthermore, the team demonstrated that pairing high-resistivity wafers with in-situ edge passivation is essential to manage their sensitivity and unlock their full performance.
  — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 14 Feb. 2026
• To get a better idea of what lies below the property, Muhlestein used a technique called electrical resistivity mapping to get 3-D images of the property down to 30 feet below ground.
  — Brendan Gibbons, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Dec. 2017
• As each cylinder of rock comes up from the deep, onboard specialists rush to record its density, resistivity, temperature and any other data that might change before the cores are examined at a main lab in Bremen, Germany.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
• Onboard was an instrument sensitive to electromagnetic fields, allowing a measure of the resistivity and magnetic susceptibility of the area under the helicopter.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2022
• These fibers combine electrical resistivity suitable for Joule heating with exceptional strength and relatively high thermal conductivity.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Mar. 2026
• There are also a number of ways to peek underground digitally without digging, including ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical resistivity.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2020
• Now that graphene has been made to perform as a superconductor with a clear zero electrical resistivity, ideas about potentially applying into making a quantum computer that would use this superconducting graphene as the basis for an integrated circuit.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Feb. 2016
• High-resistivity wafers enter the high-level injection regime more readily than low-resistivity ones, a physical characteristic that underlies their superior intrinsic potential for achieving high fill factors.
  — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 14 Feb. 2026
• The researchers discovered that the electrical resistivity dropped rapidly at around 4 K (-269 °C), indicative of an emergence of superconductivity.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Feb. 2016
• Thermopower measurements demonstrated clear ADCP, which was further confirmed through Hall resistivity measurements.
  — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Feb. 2026
• Hamlin independently released a preprint last October claiming that the electrical resistivity data also appeared to have been processed in an undisclosed manner — a new allegation atop the issue that led to the 2022 retraction.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• The main difference was that the edges of high-resistivity wafers were left without silicon nitride during chemical vapor deposition, leaving the SiOx/n-poly-Si passivation layer unprotected and partially removed during wet chemical cleaning.
  — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 14 Feb. 2026
• However, new archaeological techniques, such as electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), have provided intriguing clues.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2020