Abstract
Polycrystalline V4-cluster compounds of GaV4S8 and its derivatives Ga0.90 Cu0.10V4S8 and Ga0.90Cu0.20V4S8 have been prepared at 800°C by solid-state reaction method. Although the cubic–rhombohedral phase transformation at 45 K was found to be absent in the derivatives of GaV4S8, low-temperature hopping conduction occurred in all the materials. In the present context, we explain the conduction mechanism for all the materials using polaron theory. The polaron size was found to be large above 260 K but small below 260 K in GaV4S8, as confirmed by the Seebeck coefficient. From the activation energies and polaron size, the anomaly at 260 K is interpreted as associated with crossover from thermally activated to nearest-neighbor hopping upon cooling.
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