2017/04/10 by E. S. Skordas, Skordas, Efthimios S.
Materials Science · #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1704.02805
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Very recent measurements of the electrical conductivity of solid systems AgX - CdX2 (where X≡Cl,Br) that form large areas of solid solutions, have shown that maximum conductivity occurs for a concentration around 20 mol% of the cadmium halide. Here, we suggest a quantitative explanation of this phenomenon based on a model that was suggested (J. Appl. Phys. 103, 083552, (2008)) for estimating the compressibility of multiphased mixed crystals. In addition, explicit conditions are obtained which predict when such a conductivity maximum is expected to occur.