Title
Fe content effects on structural, electrical and magnetic properties of Fe-doped ITO polycrystalline powders
Date Issued
25 June 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
Fe-doped indium tin oxide (ITO) is an exciting material because it combines the host matrix's good electrical conductivity with the magnetic properties coming from the most earth-abundant transition metal, Fe. In this regard, a single-pot synthesis route based on a polymeric precursor method has been used to produce high-quality undoped and iron-doped ITO with iron content up to 13.0 mol%. The crystal formation in the bixbyite-type structure of all samples is confirmed by X-ray diffraction data analysis. A monotonous decrease of the lattice parameters with the increase of the Fe content is determined, which is consistent with of Fe ions with an oxidation state of 3+ in agreement with the ionic radii difference between In3+ and Fe3+. Raman spectroscopy confirms the bixbyite structure formation and provides evidence of a high surface disorder. 119Sn Mössbauer spectroscopy reveals the formation of only Sn4+ ions. Meanwhile, 57Co Mössbauer spectroscopy suggests the presence of Fe3+ ions in a paramagnetic state. DC magnetization characterization of the Fe-doped ITO nanoparticles confirms the compound's paramagnetic character. The sheet resistance (R/□) measurements provide a lower value for the undoped ITO sample (~0.26 Ω/sq) than the one of commercial bulk material. It has been determined that the sheet resistance increases with the Fe content, suggesting the decrease of the conduction electrons density as the iron content is increased.
Volume
867
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería del Petróleo, (combustibles, aceites), Energía, Combustibles Química física Métodos de investigación bioquímica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85100603119
Source
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
ISSN of the container
09258388
Sponsor(s)
FFHA, JAHC and DGPS acknowledge the financial support of CONCYTEC – FONDECYT (contract no. 07-2019-FONDECYT-BM-INC. INV). Also, the authors thank the partial support given by FAPESP (Grant number 2016/21371-5 ). JAHC thanks the Brazilian agencies CNPq (Grants number 301455/2017-1 , 443652/2018-0 ) and FAPDF (grant number 00193.0000151/2019-20 ) for the financial support. Thanks to M.Sc. G. Niraula for the English grammar revision.
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