Ionic conduction of the perovskite-type halides

Abstract The ionic conduction in the perovskite-type halides, CsPbCl3, CsPbCl3 and KMnCl3, was studied. Measurements were made of ac conductivity at temperatures from 150°C to the melting point, and of ionic transport number using the Tubandt, EMF and ion-blocking methods. The effects of impurity doping on the ionic conductivity of CsPbCl3 were also studied using the samples of composition, CsPb0.99M0.01Cl2.99 (M = Li, Na, K, Ag). It was concluded that these materials are halide-ion condcutors. The ionic conductivities of CsPbCl3 and CsPbBr3 are close to those of the well known halide-ion conductors, PbCl2 and PbBr2. The ionic transport numbers were found to be > 0.9 for CsPbCl3 and CsPbBr3, and about 0.99 for KMnCl3. The conduction was considered to be caused by the migration of halide-ion vacancies V X (X = Cl, Br). The activation energies for the migration of V X were 0.29 eV for CsPbCl3, 0.25 eV for CsPbBr3 and 0.39 eV for KMnCl3. The vacancy diffusion coefficients of these materials were found to be verylarge. However, the impurity doping did not increase the ionic conductivity markedly because of small dopant solubility.