Journal
JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 509, Issue 6, Pages 2909-2913Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2010.11.153
Keywords
d.c. resistivity; Band gap; Auto combustion; Bismuth ferrite; XRD; FTIR
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Aluminum doped Bismuth ferrite (BFO) nanopowders (grain size 13-20 nm) having composition Bi1-xAl2xFe1-xO3 (x=0.00, 0.025, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20, 0.25 and 0.30) were successfully synthesized by solution combustion method using citric acid as fuel at a temperature as low as 200 degrees C. As-prepared samples were examined by powder XRD for phase identification and crystallite size determination. The d.c. resistivity as a function of temperature was measured by standard two probe setup which exhibits clear metal to insulator transition for all samples. FTIR analysis was carried out to identify the chemical bonds present in the system. The optical band gap was calculated from the UV-vis absorbance spectra using classical Tauc relation which was found to vary from 2.78 eV to 2.93 eV for different Al3+. concentrations. The activation energies calculated from the slopes of ln(rho) versus 10(3)/T plots are in the range 0.54-0.73 eV. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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