Titanium doping of BiFeO3 ceramics and identification of minor phases by Raman spectroscopy

[EN] Titanium substitution can improve the multiferroic properties of bismuth ferrite materials, albeit the structural changes that this dopant produces in the perovskite structure of BiFeO are still not well understood. Due to its high sensitivity, Raman spectroscopy can be a useful tool for traili...

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Autores: Bernardo, M. S., Calatayud, David G., Jardiel, Teresa, Makovec, D., Peiteado, Marco, Caballero Cuesta, Amador
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/211549
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/211549
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Raman spectroscopy
Bismuth ferrite
B-site doping
Microstructure
Secondary phases
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Resumo:[EN] Titanium substitution can improve the multiferroic properties of bismuth ferrite materials, albeit the structural changes that this dopant produces in the perovskite structure of BiFeO are still not well understood. Due to its high sensitivity, Raman spectroscopy can be a useful tool for trailing the dopant incorporation. In this work, we study the Raman spectra of undoped and Ti-doped BiFeO ceramics that also contain small amounts of secondary phases – as it is usual for materials of this system. The micro-Raman study together with a rigorous derivative analysis of the experimental Raman spectra recorded at low temperature (73 K) enables, for the first time, the identification of the Raman bands associated with the BiFeO phase together with those belonging to the minor secondary phases. The comparison between the Raman spectra of the undoped and the Ti-doped materials indicates that some of the titanium added to the composition interacts with the secondary phases while only a partial amount of this dopant actually incorporates into the BiFeO phase. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.