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Electrical conductivity of dry, slow cooled (AgPO$_3$)$_{1-x}$(AgI)$_x$ glasses is examined as a function of temperature, frequency and glass composition. From these data compositional trends in activation energy for conductivity E$_A$(x),…
Raman scattering, IR reflectance and modulated DSC measurements are performed on specifically prepared dry (AgI)x(AgPO3)1-x glasses over a wide range of compositions 0 < x < 0.60. A reversibility window is observed in the 0.095< x < 0.378…
AC conductivity spectra of xAgI-(1-x)AgPO$_3$ fast ion conducting glasses spanning the flexible, intermediate (isostatically rigid) and stressed rigid phases are analyzed. The rescaled frequency dependent spectra are mapped into…
Ion conducting $(CaO)_x(SiO_2)_{1-x}$ glasses and melts show a threshold behaviour in dc conductivity near $x=x_t=0.50$, with conductivities increasing linearly at $x>x_t$. We show that the behaviour can be traced to a rigid ($x<0.50$) to…
In this work, we observe the rigidity percolation phenomena in a fast ion conducting, conditional glass forming system (AgI)75-x-(Ag2O)25-(MoO3)x. To find out where, why and how the rigidity percolation phenomenon occurs within the range of…
Non-Arrhenius behaviour and fast increase of the ionic conductivity is observed for a number of potassium silicate glasses $(1-x)SiO_2-xK_2O$ with potassium oxide concentration larger than a certain value $x=x_c=0.14$. Recovering of…
The synthesis of xAgI(1-x)[Ag2O.B2O3] amorphous superionic conductors is done via mechanochemical synthesis route (for x = 0.5 and 0.7). Ionic conductivities of 3 mOhm-1cm-1 for x = 0.5 sample and 5mOhm-1cm-1 for x = 0.7 sample at room…
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy and Raman studies are performed on fast ion conducting, AgI-Ag2O-MoO3 glasses, over a wide range of composition to understand the features of structure, ion migration and their correlation. These…
Developing efficient, fast performing and thermally stable Silver iodide based fast ion conducting solids are of great interest for resistive switching applications, but still remain challenges. Metallization in bulk, behavior of threshold…
We report a thorough characterization of the dielectric relaxation behavior and the ionic conductivity in the plastic-crystalline mixture of 60% succinonitrile and 40% glutaronitrile. The plastic phase can be easily supercooled and the…
Recent observations have shown that at a certain composition of solid solutions AgCl$_x$Br$_{1-x}$, AgCl-CdCl$_2$, AgBr-CdBr$_2$, of ionic crystals, the electrical conductivity exhibits a value appreciably larger than that of the end…
Alkaline earth silicate glasses $xCaO-(1-x)SiO_2$ exhibit a well marked threshold in Raman lineshapes which can be related to the onset of network rigidity as the concentration of calcium oxide $x$ is decreased. The present results are…
For being used as an electrolyte in All Solid State Batteries (ASSB), a solid electrolyte must possess ionic conductivity comparable to that of conventional liquid electrolytes. To achieve this conductivity range, the series…
The field-dependent ion transport in thin samples of different glasses is characterised by means of nonlinear conductivity spectroscopy. AC electric fields with strengths up to 77 kV/cm are applied to the samples, and the Fourier components…
Very recent measurements of the electrical conductivity of solid systems AgX - CdX$_2$ (where X$\equiv$Cl,Br) that form large areas of solid solutions, have shown that maximum conductivity occurs for a concentration around 20 mol\% of the…
Here we show that a new class of glasses composed of heavy metal oxides involving transition metals (V$_\text {2}$O$_\text{}$5-TeO$_\text{2}$), can surprisingly be designed from very basic tools using topology and rigidity of their…
The electric properties of a model fast-ion electrolyte ((100-x)SiS2-xNa2S) glass are investigated by means of classical molecular dynamics simulations. These systems appear promising for battery applications and the conductivity is thought…
This paper presents results for systems formed in a solid glassy state after nanocrystallization process above the glass temperature. We analyze electric conductivity and relaxation processes after such treatment under high temperature (HT)…
Variation of fragility (m) of specially homogenized GexSe100-x melts are established from complex specific heat measurements, and show m(x) has a global minimum at an extremely low value (m=14.8(0.5)) in the 21.5%<x<23% range of Ge. Outside…
There is growing evidence that electronic and molecular networks present some common universal properties, among which the existence of a self-organized intermediate phase. In glasses, the latter is revealed by the reversibility window…