Structural, magnetic and dielectric properties of the Aurivillius phase Bi6Fe2−xMnxTi3O18 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.8)
Structural, magnetic and dielectric properties of the Aurivillius phase Bi6Fe2−xMnxTi3O18 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.8)
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DOI:
10.1039/c4ra06843b
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发表时间:
2014-09
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3.9
通讯作者:
X. Zuo;Jie Yang;B. Yuan;D. Song;Xianwu Tang;Kejun Zhang;Xuebin Zhu;W. Song;J. Dai;Yuping Sun
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X. Zuo;Jie Yang;B. Yuan;D. Song;Xianwu Tang;Kejun Zhang;Xuebin Zhu;W. Song;J. Dai;Yuping Sun
The n = 5 Aurivillius phase ceramics Bi6Fe2−xMnxTi3O18 (BFMTO) (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.8) were synthesized with a conventional solid-state reaction method. All samples can be indexed with an orthorhombic structure with the space group B2cb. The magnetic measurements indicate that these ceramics are predominantly paramagnetic with the presence of short-range antiferromagnetic interactions and a weak ferromagnetic ordering state, implying that the predicted Fe3+–O–Mn3+ 180° ferromagnetic superexchange interaction based on the Goodenough–Kanamori rule might not be achieved in BFMTO ceramics through Mn substitution for Fe in the n = 5 Aurivillius phase. The dielectric loss of the x = 0.3 and 0.4 samples demonstrates the relaxation process and the rather large activation energy (2.63 eV for the x = 0.3 sample and 2.10 eV for the x = 0.4 sample) implies that this relaxation process is not due to the thermal motion of oxygen vacancies. The 0.5 ≤ x ≤ 0.8 samples exhibit a paraelectric–ferroelectric phase transition and the ferroelectric Curie temperature decreases upon increasing the doping level of Mn.