Anti-site disorder and physical properties in microwave synthesized RE2Ti2O7 (RE = Gd, Ho) pyrochlores
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2015
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Gómez-Pérez, Alejandro
Andrada Chacón, Adrián
Azcondo, MaríaTeresa
Amador, Ulises
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Royal Society of Chemistry
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Gómez-Pérez, Alejandro, et al. «Anti-Site Disorder and Physical Properties in Microwave Synthesized RE 2 Ti 2 O 7 (RE = Gd, Ho) Pyrochlores». RSC Advances, vol. 5, n.o 104, 2015, pp. 85229-41. https://doi.org/10.1039/C5RA07796F.
Abstract
In this work we report on the microwave assisted synthesis of nano-sized Gd2Ti2O7 (GTO) and Ho2Ti2O7 (HTO) powders from the RE2Ti2O7 pyrochlore family (RE ¼ rare earth). Synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction was used to study RE–Ti cationic anti-site defects with concentrations that decrease in both samples with increasing temperature starting from 1100 C, and the defects disappear at 1400 ºC. SQUID magnetometry measurements revealed that GTO shows a predominantly anti-ferromagnetic structure, whereas HTO exhibits magnetic saturation and a ferromagnetic component at low temperature. Impedance spectroscopy data revealed strongly increased ionic oxygen vacancy conduction in HTO ceramic pellets as compared to GTO, which may be associated with a higher degree of oxygen vacancy disorder. This argument was supported by Raman spectroscopy data.