On the electrical resistivity of chevrel phases

Abstract

The diverse and anomalous electrical resistivity behaviour of binary and ternary chevrel phases A_xMo₃X₄ (A=Cu, Pb, Zn, etc; 03Se₄ and CuMoSe₄, in which the high-temperature resistivity is attributed to a conduction-electron mean-free path comparable to the lattice spacing. The low-temperature resistivity of these materials shows a T² dependence characteristic of electron-phonon scattering.