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The electrical conductivity of polycrystalline titanium dioxide prepared by a liquid mix technique was measured for the oxygen partial pressure range of 10° to 10−19 atm and temperature range of 850 to 1050° C. The data were found to be proportional to the −1/6 power of oxygen partial pressure for the oxygen pressure range 10−19 to 10−15 atm, and proportional to \(P_{{\text{O}}_2 }^{ - 1/4}\)for the oxygen pressure range >10−15 atm. The region of linearity where the electrical conductivity varied as the −1/4 power of \(P_{{\text{O}}_2 }\)increased as the temperature was decreased. There was evidence of p-type behaviour for \(P_{{\text{O}}_2 } > 10^{ - 2}\)atm in the temperature range 950 to 850° C, although the measured data were insufficient to assign a pressure dependence. Electrical conductivity minima in the log σ against log \(P_{{\text{O}}_2 }\)plot moved to lower \(P_{{\text{O}}_2 }\)as the temperature was decreased in the range 950 to 850° C. The measured oxygen pressure dependence of electrical conductivity in the lowest \(P_{{\text{O}}_2 }\)region supports the oxygen vacancy defect model. The observed data are consistent with the presence of very small amounts of acceptor impurities. A binding energy of ∼ 0.67 eV between the acceptor impurity and its compensating oxygen vacancy was also determined.
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Balachandran, U., Eror, N.G. Electrical conductivity in non-stoichiometric titanium dioxide at elevated temperatures. J Mater Sci 23, 2676–2682 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00547436
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