Synthesis and Characterization of Nickel doped Barium Niobate Ba (Ni0.5Nb0.5)O3 (BNN) Nanomaterial

Abstract

Abstract

Ferroelectric materials are of great interest for researchers worldwide, because of their unique physical properties and wide range of applications. The composite nanomaterial Ba(NiNb)_0.5O₃ (BNN) was synthesized by conventional solid state reaction method. The structural characterization was done by x-ray diffraction (XRD). The research was carried out to investigate structural properties of BNN nanomaterial as a function of sintering duration. BNN was sintered at 1000⁰C and different samples were prepared by varying duration of heat treatment. It was found that there was no major difference in structural properties of BNN when heated up to 12 h. But there was a sudden change in structural properties, when material was sintered for 18 h. The average grain size calculated is 50.49 nm and lattice parameter 4.1281 A⁰ with cubic crystal structure.

Keywords: XRD, ferroelectric, perovskite, nanomaterial, grain size, etc.

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Kalpana G. Joshi, Bajaj SB, Sumedh S. Ingle. Synthesis and Characterization of Nickel doped Barium Niobate Ba (Ni_0.5Nb_0.5)O₃ (BNN) Nanomaterial. Journal of Microelectronics and Solid State Devices. 2018; 5(2): 29–33p.