DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln - Robert Fuller and F.W. Patten: Electrical Conductivity in NH<sub>4</sub>Cl and ND<sub>4</sub>Cl Single Crystals

Research Papers in Physics and Astronomy

Robert G. Fuller Publications

Title

Electrical Conductivity in NH₄Cl and ND₄Cl Single Crystals

Authors

Robert Fuller
F.W. Patten, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Wash. D.C.

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

January 1970

Comments

Published in Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 31 (1970), pp. 1539-1545. Copyright © Pergamon Press / Elsevier 1970. Used by permission. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00223697.

Abstract

Electrical conductivity measurements are reported for normal and deuterated ammonium chloride single crystals in the temperature regions which characterize the pure and the impurity-dominated materials. We conclude from the data that conductivity in ammonium chloride is due to the formation of either cation or anion vacancies and a subsequent process controlled by a proton transfer. Our results are found to be consistent with a model proposed by Herrington and Staveley.

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