Studies on the electrical properties of polycrystalline cobalt-substituted lithium ferrites

The electrical properties were studied of a series of cobalt-substituted lithium ferrites. We have found that all the samples studied have single phase of spinel structure. The lattice constant and the density increase with increasing Co ²⁺ contents. All the specimens studied have two regions of different activation energies. In the region below T_a (220°C) the conduction is attributed to electron hopping from Fe ²⁺ to Fe ³⁺ and in the region above T_a it is attributed to Li ion. The change of mobility is caused by the dispersion of ions.