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High-temperature materials including oxides, borides, carbides, and nitrides encompass all types of conductors: metallic, semiconducting, and ionic. Their electrical conductivities are generally very sensitive to impurities regardless of the type of conductor. For large band-gap materials, which includes most of the oxides, the conductivities at low temperatures are frequently dominated by impurities or dopants, and intrinsic conduction only becomes significant above a temperature which depends largely on the level of dopant, the band gap and the defect structure of the base material. The borides, carbides, and nitrides of transition metals are metallic conductors with conductivities and temperature coefficients of resistivity comparable to that of their parent metals.
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Wang, C.C., Akbar, S.A., Chen, W. et al. Electrical properties of high-temperature oxides, borides, carbides, and nitrides. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE 30, 1627–1641 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00351591
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