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Critical ionic transport across an oxygen-vacancy ordering transition.

Ji Soo LimHo-Hyun NahmMarco CampaniniJounghee LeeYong-Jin KimHeung-Sik ParkJeonghun SuhJun JungYongsoo YangTae Yeong KooMarta D RossellYong-Hyun KimChan-Ho Yang
Published in: Nature communications (2022)
Phase transition points can be used to critically reduce the ionic migration activation energy, which is important for realizing high-performance electrolytes at low temperatures. Here, we demonstrate a route toward low-temperature thermionic conduction in solids, by exploiting the critically lowered activation energy associated with oxygen transport in Ca-substituted bismuth ferrite (Bi 1-x Ca x FeO 3-δ ) films. Our demonstration relies on the finding that a compositional phase transition occurs by varying Ca doping ratio across x Ca ≃ 0.45 between two structural phases with oxygen-vacancy channel ordering along <100> or <110> crystal axis, respectively. Regardless of the atomic-scale irregularity in defect distribution at the doping ratio, the activation energy is largely suppressed to 0.43 eV, compared with ~0.9 eV measured in otherwise rigid phases. From first-principles calculations, we propose that the effective short-range attraction between two positively charged oxygen vacancies sharing lattice deformation not only forms the defect orders but also suppresses the activation energy through concerted hopping.
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