“…The PTCR effect is very pronounced for yttrium and strontium modified barium titanate ceramics [11][12][13][14][15][16], for samples doped with niobium [10,17,18], holmium [19], strontium, lanthanum [14], niobium pentoxide, yttrium hexaboride [15,16], some oxygen-free compounds [20], and for other types of barium titanate ceramics [21] obtained with various synthesis procedures [15,16,21,22]. According to reference [10] this phenomenon can be explained by the formation of barrier layers at the grain boundaries at higher temperatures, and was more recently demonstrated by direct observations of temperature dependence of these potential barriers [18].…”