Conductivity in Nd+K doped ferroelectric lead germanate single crystals |
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Authors: | AV Wazalwar AG Katpatal |
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Institution: | Department of Applied Physics, Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur 440011, India |
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Abstract: | Nd+3+K+ doped ferroelectric lead germanate (LG) single crystals were grown to study the influence of the double dopants on ferroelectric behavior of LG. The crystals were grown by controlled cooling of the melt. Temperature variation of d.c. conductivity of the grown samples was studied in temperature range of 40-400 °C. Room temperature conductivity was enhanced as a result of doping. The existence of two activation energies, one in the ferroelectric phase (0.61 eV) and another in the paraelectric phase (0.77 eV) in the results, were revealed. The increase in conductivity due to doping is attributed to the generation of charge carriers due to double doping and the existence of two activation energies is attributed to the structural changes taking place at the ferroelectric transition temperature. |
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Keywords: | D Ferroelectricity D Defects D Phase transitions |
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