Abstract
Measurements of electrical resistivity versus temperature are reported for single-crystal specimens of the system in the composition range 0<y<0.9 and are compared to similar studies on . These resistivity data are fitted to an Arrhenius law; various trends are briefly described. For y≥0.2, beyond which ions are increasingly present on tetrahedral interstices, the variation of the preexponential factor with y can be described on the basis of a small polaron model, assuming that the octahedral sites occupied by ions are not accessible to charge carriers. For y<0.2 this model fails; a possible explanation is offered in terms of changes in lattice properties in the concentration range where only ions are present on tetrahedral interstices.
- Received 20 November 1992
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.48.2057
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