Détermination des modèles d'imperfections de différentes variétés allotropiques du sulfure cuivreux (digénite cubique,chalcocite hexagonale “haute et basse température”, chalcocite orthorhombique)

From the study of the CuCuBrCu_2?εSC solid cell in the range of cubic digenite and “high temperature” hexagonal chalcocite we have deduced the laws of variation of the deviation from stoichiometry and the holes concentration with the equilibrium partial pressure of sulfur (δ and p are found to be proportional to ). The electronic model corresponding to the formation of associations (V^×_CuV′_Cu) in the presence of neutral vacancies V^×_Cu allows one to explain these laws. In the low temperature range (range of “low temperature” hexagonal chalcocite and orthorhombic chalcocite) the study of thermal variations of Hall coefficient permits us to propose the following models: (a) the deviation from stoichiometry of the “low temperature” hexagonal chalcocite is due to the simple ionized vacancies V′_Cu; (b) the deviation from stoichiometry of the orthorhombic chalcocite is due to the vacancies V′_Cu and to the associations (V^×_CuV^×_Cu).