Ionic conductors are of tremendous importance for numerous and various applications from the fields of batteries up to sensors. The aim was to enlarge their potentialities by creating new families of compounds having such properties. Our researches have been focused on oxides containing both M transition elements (M equals Mo, V, Nb) and `lone pair oxides', i.e. from M* elements like M* equals Sb III, Te IV, Bi III, characterized by a ns² electronic state involving a lone pair E of electrons. Some new compounds will be presented and their particular atomic structures depicted.

Date Published: 24 March 1999
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 3724, International Conference on Solid State Crystals '98: Single Crystal Growth, Characterization, and Applications, (24 March 1999); doi: 10.1117/12.342969

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3724:
International Conference on Solid State Crystals '98: Single Crystal Growth, Characterization, and Applications
Andrzej Majchrowski; Jerzy Zielinski, Editor(s)