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MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 225, Issue -, Pages 187-191Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2018.12.068
Keywords
CeO2; Nanoparticles; Dilute magnetic semiconductor (DMS); PACS numbers
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- Brazilian agency FAPITEC (PRONEX)
- Brazilian agency CNPq [455608/2014-8, 455970/2014-9]
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior - Brasil (CAPES) [001]
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The structural and magnetic properties of TM-doped CeO2 nanoparticles obtained by hydrothermal method are reported. X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), transmission electronic microscopy (TEM), UV/vis absorption and temperature, field-dependent magnetic measurements are used to study the samples. The Rietveld refinement analysis of XRD patterns show that nanoparticles have a cubic structure with average sizes ranging from 8 to 12 nm. TEM images reveal that nanoparticles have a spherical-like shape and a small particles size distribution. The UV/vis absorption data allow us to state that the band gap remain unaffected by the doping. The magnetic measurements indicate that the TM-doped samples exhibit a magnetic saturation at T = 5 K and paramagnetic behavior at T = 300 K. Besides, the number of paramagnetic ions, n, was evaluated for fitting the chi(T) curves to Curie-Weiss law. The obtained n values show to be TM- and concentration-dependent and smaller than the nominal concentration for all samples.
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