Investigating of the energy band of core electrons to identify the defects of BaTiO3 nanoelectroceramic doped with different concentrations of Nb element

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New modern energy Lab., Esfarayen University of Technology, Esfarayen, Iran

Abstract

In this study, the relationship between the defects of BaTiO3 doped by different amounts of pentavalent element Nb was investigated by positron spectroscopy. The reduction of the background spectrum caused by a coincidence detection system in Doppler broadening spectroscopy allows the contribution of high-momentum core electrons in the process of positron annihilation in the BT(1-x)O:Nbx structure (x=0, 0.03, 0.05, 0.07) should be investigated. The results showed that initially by increasing impurity up to 0.05 mol% due to co-substitution of Nb with Ti, the amount of defects, especially open volume defects, is reduced and with further increase in concentration, the amount of vacancy defects increases.

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Iranian Journal of Crystallography and Mineralogy
Volume 31, Issue 4 - Serial Number 92
December 2023
Pages 777-784

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  • Receive Date: 11 April 2023
  • Revise Date: 16 June 2023
  • Accept Date: 09 July 2023

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