The defect and transport properties of acceptor doped TlBr: role of dopant exsolution and association |
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Authors: | Bishop Sean R Tuller Harry L Ciampi Guido Higgins William Engel Johanna Churilov Alexei Shah Kanai S |
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Affiliation: | Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. |
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Abstract: | The role of acceptor dopants (S and Se) in controlling the ionic conductivity of single crystal TlBr, grown by the vertical Bridgman method, was examined as a function of temperature with the aid of impedance spectroscopy. Several features in the conductivity were identified and related to acceptor dopant-Br vacancy association, acceptor dopant exsolution, and Br vacancy mobility. The corresponding enthalpies for these processes were extracted from the data and were found to be equal to H(a) = 0.42 ± 0.07 eV, H(sol) = 1.55 ± 0.18 eV and H(m,Br) = 0.31 ± 0.02 eV respectively, the latter consistent with earlier studies on donor doped and undoped TlBr. A long term conductivity decay in the extrinsic region, attributed to S or Se exsolution, was observed. The time constant associated with exsolution was found to be thermally activated with an activation energy of 0.47 ± 0.1 eV. Estimates for Se solubility at different temperatures are provided. |
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