Abstract
A study of the effect of Li substitution on the electrical properties of the oxides MnO, CoO, NiO, and CuO has been made. It has been found that (1) the activation energy for conduction increases abruptly near the antiferromagnetic Curie point; (2) as Li is added the activation energy and resistivity initially decrease rapidly and then level off in the neighborhood of 2% substituted Li; (3) this initial decrease becomes progressively greater in going from MnO to CuO in the sequence of the periodic table. A rather complete understanding of these materials can be had by treating the conduction process as a thermally activated diffusion of positive holes which are trapped by the local strain induced by their own polarization field. The magnitude of the activation energy will be related to the work done against elastic forces necessary to reduce the local strain at a positive hole to zero.
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