Oxygen Activity Dependence of the Electrical Conductivity of Li‐Doped Cr <sub>2</sub> O <sub>3</sub>

Rong‐Fong Huang, Ashish Agarwal, Harlan U. Anderson

Journal of the American Ceramic Society · 1984 · 21 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

The electrical conductivity of Li‐doped Cr 2 O 3 was investigated as a function of PO 2 , temperature, and dopant content. Results show that the electrical conductivity remains almost unchanged with decreasing P O 2 in the high‐P O 2 region but decreases rapidly at low P O 2 . A second phase was found in samples which contained more than 0.85 mol% Li. The results are explained by a model in which the concentration of charge carriers is dependent on the acceptor dopant and oxygen vacancy concentration.

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