Dielectric properties and alternating current conductivity of sol-gel made La0.8Ca0.2FeO3 compound

In this work, single phase La0.8Ca0.2FeO3 nanomaterial has been synthesized by the sol-gel method using the citric acid route. By employing impedance spectroscopy, ac electrical properties have been measured over a temperature range from 300 to 673 K at various frequencies. With the analysis based on Debye's theory and a series of Arrhenius relations, the relaxation was argued to be associated with the hopping motions of charge carriers between Fe ions. The relaxation in the La0.8Ca0.2FeO3 compound was ascribed to be a polaronic relaxation. The ac electrical conduction was studied and associated to the non-overlapping small polaron tunneling (NSPT) model. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.