Abstract
A defect/electrical conduction model based upon a mixture of 5:2 and 13:4 (vacancy-to-tetrahedral) clusters is proposed for FeO which is consistent with available diffraction, nonstoichiometry and electrical data. Conduction occurs via small polaron hopping between Fe3+ and Fe2+ on octahedral near-cluster sites with two vacancy nearest neighbors. Evidence is cited for an increase in Fe2+ on tetrahedral (interstitial) sites as temperature increases.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 775-781 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids |
Volume | 47 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1986 |
Funding
Acknowledgemenu-Thisr esearchw as supportedi nitially by the U.S. Army Research Office (Contract No. DAAG29-80X0035)a ndt henb y theD epartmenot f Energy (Grant No. DE-AC02-83ER45043T).h is paperi s basedi n part on the thesis of E. Gartstein submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree at Northwestern University.
Keywords
- Defects
- Seebeck coefficient
- clusters
- defect clusters
- electrical conductivity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Chemistry
- General Materials Science
- Condensed Matter Physics