ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY OF POTASSIUM CHLORIDE

Authors

• Robert FullerFollow
• Michael H. Reilly, U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C.
• Charles L. Marquardt, U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C.
• John C. Wells, U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C.

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

March 1968

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. Lett. 20, 662 (1968). http://prl.aps.org. Copyright © 1968 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

The electrical conductivity of potassium chloride is discussed within the framework of a four-defect model of the crystal. The four defects are mobile anion and cation vacancies and immobile divalent cation impurities and divalent cation impurity-cation vacancy complexes. The Teltow formulation of the four-defect mode1 fails to describe precisely the measured electrical conductivity of KCl over the entire intrinsic and extrinsic range.