The electrical transport properties of La0.5Sr0.5CrO3 below room temperatures were investigated by dielectric, dc resistivity, magnetic properties and thermoelectric power. Below TC, La0.5Sr0.5CrO3 contains a dielectric relaxation process in the tangent loss and electric modulus. The La0.5Sr0.5CrO3 involves the transition from high temperature thermal activated conduction process to low temperature one. The transition temperature corresponds well to the Curie point. The relaxation mechanism has been discussed in the frame of electric modulus spectra. The scaling behavior of the modulus suggests that the relaxation mechanism describes the same mechanism at various temperatures. The low temperature conduction and relaxation takes place in the ferromagnetic phase. The ferromagnetic state in La0.5Sr0.5CrO3 indicates that the electron - magnon interaction occurs, and drives the carriers towards localization in tandem with the electron - lattice interaction even at temperature above the Curie temperature.

The thermoelectric power and dc conductivity of La2/3+xTiO3-δ (x = 0, 0.13) were investigated. The thermoelectric power was negative between 80K and 300K. The measured thermoelectric power of x = 0.13 increased linearly with increased temperatures and was represented by S0+BT. The x = 0 sample exhibited insulating behavior, while the x = 0.13 sample showed metallic behavior. The electric resistivity of x = 0.13 had a linear temperature dependence at high temperatures and a T3/2 dependence below about 100K. On the other hand, the electric resistivity of x = 0 has a linear relation between lnρ/T and 1/T in the range of 200 to 300K, and the activation energy for small polaron hopping was 0.23 eV. The temperature dependence of thermoelectric power and the resistivity of x = 0 suggests that the charge carriers responsible for conduction are strongly localized. This temperature dependence indicates that the charge carrier (x = 0) is an adiabatic small polaron. These experimental results are interpreted in terms of spin (x = 0.13) and small polaron (x = 0) hopping of almost localized Ti 3d electrons.

Thermoelectric power, dc conductivity, and the dielectric relaxation properties of La2NiO4.03 are reported in the temperature range of 77 K - 300 K and in a frequency range of 20 Hz - 1 MHz. Thermoelectric power was positive below 300K. The measured thermoelectric power of La2NiO4.03 decreased linearly with temperature. The dc conductivity showed a temperature variation consistent with the variable range hopping mechanism at low temperatures and the adiabatic polaron hopping mechanism at high temperatures. The low temperature dc conductivity mechanism in La2NiO4.03 was analyzed using Mott's approach. The temperature dependence of thermoelectric power and dc conductivity suggests that the charge carriers responsible for conduction are strongly localized. The relaxation mechanism has been discussed in the frame of the electric modulus and loss spectra. The scaling behavior of the modulus and loss tangent suggests that the relaxation describes the same mechanism at various temperatures. The logarithmic angular frequency dependence of the loss peak is found to obey the Arrhenius law with activation energy of ~ 0.106eV. At low temperature, variable range hopping and large dielectric relaxation behavior for La2NiO4.03 are consistent with the polaronic nature of the charge carriers.

The ac, dc conductivity and dielectric properties of DyCoO3 were reported in the temperature range of 77 - 300K and in the frequency range of 20 Hz - 100 kHz. It was observed that at low temperature, ac conductivity is much higher than dc conductivity and the hopping carrier between localized states near the Fermi level was the dominant loss mechanism. A comparison of the measured ac conductivity σ(Ω) was made with some of the models of hopping conductivity of the proposed earlier in the literature. It was observed that in DyCoO3 the measured ac conductivity, over the entire frequency and temperature region, can be explained reasonably well by assuming two contributions σ1(Ω) and σ2(Ω) to the measured σ(Ω). The first, σ1(Ω), which dominates at low temperature, may be due to impurity conduction in a small polaron; the second, σ2(Ω), which dominates at higher temperatures, depending on the frequency of measurements, may be due to the hopping of a small polaron and is reasonable for the dielectric relaxation peak.

Thermoelectric power and resistivity are measured for the perovskite LaNi1-xTixO3 (x≤0.5) in thetemperature range 77K−300K. The measured thermoelectric power of LaNi1-xTixO3 (x≤0.5) increases linearlywith temperature and is represented by A+BT. The x=0.1 sample showed metallic behavior, the x=0.3showed metal and insulating transition around 150K, and x=0.5 showed insulating behavior the over thewhole temperature range. The electrical resistivity of x=0.1 shows linear temperature dependence over thewhole temperature range and T2 dependence. On the other hand, the electrical resistivity of x=0.3 shows alinear relation between lnρ and T−1/4 (variable range hopping mechanism) in the range of 77K to 150K. Forx=0.5, the temperature dependence of resistivity is characteristic of insulating materials; the resistivity datawas fitted to an exponential law, such as ln(ρ/T) and T−1, which is usually attributed to a small polaronhopping mechanism. These experimental results are interpreted in terms of the spin polaron (x=0.1) andvariable range hopping (x=0.3) or small polaron hopping (x=0.5) of an almost localized Ni3+ 3d polaron.

In this study, the thermoelectric power and resistivity of the perovskite manganiteLa0.75Ba0.25MnO3 were investigated in the temperature range 300K-1200K. The electrical resistivity andthermoelectric power indicate a transport mechanism dominated by adiabatic small-polaron hopping. Thepower factor increases from 2×10−6W/mK2 to 1×10−5W/mK2 as to the temperature increases from 400K to1200K, which indicates that the compound is highly feasible as a thermoelectric material at high temperatures.

The dc resistivity and thermoelectric power of bilayered perovskite La1.4(Sr0.2Ca1.4)Mn2O7 weremeasured as a function of the temperature. In the ferromagnetic phase, ρ(T) was accurately predicted by a0+a2T2+a4.5T4.5 with and without an applied field. At high temperatures, a significant difference between theactivation energy deduced from the electrical resistivity and thermoelectric power, a characteristic of smallpolarons, was observed. All of the experimental data can be feasibly explained on the basis of the small polaron.