Low-Temperature Structure and Dynamics in Cu2Se
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2015 American Chemical Society. We report 63Cu and 65Cu NMR on Cu2Se, a superionic conductor of interest for thermoelectric and other applications. Results demonstrate an initial appearance of ionic hopping in a narrow temperature range above 100 K, coinciding with the recently observed low-temperature phase transition. At room temperature and above, this goes over to rapid Cu-ion hopping and a single motionally narrowed line both above and below the - structural transition. The low-temperature ' phase exhibits a sizable metallic shift, in contrast to the high-temperature structures. The large variation in native carrier density, significantly enhanced at positions associated with Cu vacancies, indicates the strong influence of an impurity band on low-temperature electronic transport.