Abstract
Abstract We investigated transport properties and optical reflectivity of incommensurate misfit layer compounds (LaS)1.16VS2 and (CeS)1.19(TiS2)n (stage index n = 1,2). Electrical conduction measurements revealed that (CeS)1.19(TiS2)n is metallic while (LaS)1.16VS2 is non-metallic. The existence of a short-range scattering process of the order of 10A was indicated for both electrons and phonons in (CeS)1.19(TiS2)n suggesting that the local lattice modulation induced by the incommensurate structure has an important contribution to the conduction of electrons and phonons. Optical reflectance spectra for (LaS)1.16VS2 exhibited the enhancement of the carrier scattering, indicating a different character of the conduction band of (LaS)1.16VS2 in comparison with metallic (CeS)1.19(TiS2)n. We propose the possibility of carrier localization in (LaS)1.16VS2 in relation to the incommensurate structure of these compounds.
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