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Failure of the Frenkel Defect Model to Explain the Trend in Anionic Conductivity in the MF2 Fluorite Structure and Related MSnF4 Materials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2011

Georges Denes
Georges Denes*
Affiliation:
Concordia University, Laboratory of Solid State Chemistry and Mössbauer Spectroscopy, Laboratories for Inorganic Materials, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1 M8, Canada
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Abstract

The high fluoride ion conductivity of fluorite type MF2 has been attributed tothe fact that half of the F8 cubes present in this structure are empty and therefore, are potential vacant sites for interstitial fluoride ions in the formation of Frenkel defects. However, the model of long range ion motion through Frenkel defects by use of empty F8 cubes is in contradiction with: (i) the little difference between the conductivities of CaF2 and BaF2, (ii) the conductivity of β-PbF2 being much larger than that of BaF2, and (iii) the much higher performance of MSnF4 even though there is no empty cube to form Frenkel defects in the MSnF4 structures.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 369: Symposium U – Solid State Ionics IV , 1994 , 295
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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