Characterization and Stability of La0.5Sr0.5CoO2.91 Perovskite-Type Oxide

Compositely doped oxide La0.5Sr0.5CoO2.91 （LSC） was synthesized using solid state reaction and citric acid-nitrate low temperature self-propagating combustion methods. The crystal structure and the particle size micrograph of LSC powders synthesized by different methods were investigated with XRD and SEM. The experimental results show that the single perovskite phase of LSC can be synthesized by solid state reaction method, but LaSrCoO4 phase appears in LSC powder synthesized by citric acid-nitrate low temperature self-propagating combustion method. The LSC particle by citric acid-nitrate low temperature self- propagating combustion method has smaller size. To analyze the character of cathode material based on Ceo.gGdo.101.95（GDC） electrolyte, two types of cathode wafers were fabricated with the two kinds of LSC and GDC powders at the mass rate of 6：4, respectively. The electrical conductivity of the sintered samples was measured by four probe DC method from 300 to 800 ℃. The cathode with LSC particle by citric acid- nitrate low temperature self-propagating combustion method has higher electrical conductivity. In order to investigate the stability, the two samples were put into the muffle furnace to heat up in air at 800℃for 800 h. To analysis the reason for reduced electrical conductivity, the crystal structure and the particle micrograph of the cathode wafers before and after an exposure were investigated with XRD and SEM. The result shows that new crystal structure appears in both the two kinds of cathode wafers and crystal micrographs change a lot.     

Growth and Characteristic of YbAl3(BO3)4 Crystal

YbAl3(BO3)4 crystal of good optical quality was grown by the flux method. The structure of YbAl3(BO3)4 crystal was determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The experiment shows that YbAl3(BO3)4 belongs to the double borates with a trigonal structure. The space group is R32 and its unit cell constants were measured to be a=0.92965 nm, c=0.72129 nm, V=0.53673 nm3, Z=3. The transmittance spectra were measured. The cut-off of YbAl3(BO3)4 crystal is 216 nm, and there are two absorption peaks located at 940 and 975 nm from 190 nm to 2600 nm. The thermal properties of YbAl3(BO3)4 crystal were studied for the first time. The average thermal expansion coefficients were determined to be 2×10-6/℃, 9.5×10-6/℃ along a- and c- direction. The specific heat of YbAl3(BO3)4 crystal was measured to be 0.6695 J·(g·℃)-1 at room temperature. All results indicate that the YbAl3(BO3)4 crystal is an excellent stoichioimetric laser material.     

Electrospinning synthesis and luminescent properties of Lu₂O₃:Eu³⁺ nanofibers

One-dimensional Lu2O3:Eu3+ nanofibers were prepared by electrospinning followed by high-temperature calcinations.Thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis,X-ray powder diffraction,Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy,scanning electron microscopy,photoluminescent spectra and decay curves were used to characterize the samples.Results showed that samples began to crystallize at ～500 oC and crystallized completely around 1000 oC.The average diameter of nanofibers(1000 oC annealed) was about 55 nm and the particle size of Lu2O3:Eu3+ increased with increasing annealing temperature.Under ultraviolet excitation,nanofibers exhibited typical red emission of Eu3+ in Lu2O3.The effect of heat-treatment temperature on luminescent properties of nanofibers was also discussed.     

Exploring a particle-size-reduction strategy of YAG:Ce phosphor via a chemical breakdown method

Particle size reduction of Y_3 Al_5 O_(12):Ce(YAG:Ce) phosphor is highly needed for micro-LED display applications.In this work,size control of YAG:Ce phosphor particles is achieved via carbon coating and further heat treatment.A thin layer of carbon is deposited on the surface of YAG:Ce by chemical vapor deposition.During the heat treatment,carbon reacts with oxygen element in the phosphor and escapes from phosphor particles.The reaction results in the phosphor breaking into smaller particles.The phosphors were characterized by laser light scattering for particle size distribution,scanning electron microscopy(SEM),transmission electron microscopy for morphologies,X-ray diffraction refinements for crystal structure and electron energy-loss spectroscopy for elemental analysis.It is demonstrated that the median diameter(D_(50)) of the phosphor particle size is significantly reduced from 19.1 to 0.96 μm yet the photoluminescent properties have little changes.The carbon coating and further heat treatment method show potential application in size control of phosphors.     

An impact of sintering temperature and doping level on structural and spectral properties of Eu-doped strontium aluminium oxide

In the present work,a sol-gel method was employed to prepare nanosized SrAl2O4 powders doped with Eu3+ ions.The raw nano-materials were thermally treated at 900 to 1100 oC for 3 h.The XRD analysis demonstrated that the powders were single-phase nanopowders with high crystallite dispersion.Our studies were focused on relating the luminescence properties of the Eu3+ dopant to the NC(nanocrystal-lites) size.This was achieved by varying the calcinations temperature between 900 and 1100 oC.The average NC size varied accordingly be-tween ～36 and ～75 nm.We found that size effect manifested mainly in the expansion of the cell volume and broadening of XRD peaks as in-dicated by Rietveld analysis.Moreover the emission and excitation spectra,although typical for Eu3+ ions,demonstrated some degree of variability with calcinations temperature and doping concentration.To explain these differences a detailed analysis of luminescence spectra by the Judd-Ofelt theory was performed.     

Effects of Sm-doping on microstructure,magnetic and microwave absorption properties of BiFeO_3

In this paper,polycrystalline samples of Bi_(1-x)Sm_xFeO~3(x=0,0.05,0.1,0.15) were successfully synthesized by sol-gel method.The effects of Sm concentration on the crystal structure,morphology,chemical states,magnetic properties and microwave absorption performance were studied by X-ray diffraction(XRD),scanning electron microscopy(SEM),transmission electron microscopy(TEM),X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS),a vibrating sample magnetometer(VSM) and a Vector network analyzer(VNA),respectively.The results show that the rare earth Sm doping causes the crystal structure to change.When x≤0.1,Bi_(1-x)Sm_xFeO_3 is the distorted rhombohedral structure with space group R3 c.With the increase of Sm doping amount to x=0.15,the phase structure of Bi_(1-x)Sm_xFeO_3 changes from rhombohedral structure to cubic structure with the space group Pm3 m.The particle size decreases with the increase of the Sm doping amount.The analysis results show that Sm doping can effectively reduce the oxygen vacancies and significantly improve its magnetic properties.The results exhibit that moderately doped rare earth Sm element can effectively improve microwave absorption properties of Bi_(1-x)Sm_xFeO_3 powders.When Sm doping amount of x is 0.1,the Bi_(0.9)Sm_(0.1) FeO_3 compound has good microwave absorption performance,and the minimum reflection loss value of Bi_(0.9)Sm_(0.1)FeO_3 powder reaches about-32.9 dB at11.7 GHz,and its effective absorption bandwidth(RL -10 dB) is 2.6 GHz with the optimal matching thickness of 2.0 mm.     

Preparation and Electrical Transport Properties of Perovskite Oxide Ln0.5Sr0.5CoO3

The superfine powders of Ln0.5 Sr0.5 CoO3 （Ln = La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu） were obtained by solid state reactions. The crystal structure and electrical transport properties of samples doped with different rare earth elements as well as the forming process of the Perovskite structure were studied. The result shows that when the temperature reaches 1200 ℃, the samples will become a steady and unitary Perovskite phase by solid state reactions. The conductive behavor at low temperature is consistent with small polaron mechanism （i. e., localized electronic carriers having a thermally activated mobility）. However, the maximum of conductivity appears at about 700 ℃, and the conductivity of La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 is the biggest in the intermediate-temperature （600 - 850 ℃ ）, so it is fit for cathode material of intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cells.     

Preparation and Physicochemical Characterization of La1-x Cex Co03＋δ Perovskite Catalyst and Its Methane Catalytic Combustion

Perovskite oxide LaCoO3 methane catalytic material was synthesized with citric acid complexation and bubbling method. The effect of doped cerium was studied on the series of La1-x,Ce,CoO3 8 materials by means of BET, XRD and SEM techniques. Their catalytic behaviors were studied with methane catalytic complete combustion as probe reaction.The results show that doped cerium has great effect on crystal phase formation. When doped cerium is less than 0.3(molar ratio), the crystal phase of oxide has little changed. When doped cerium is up to 0.5, Co3O4 phase is obviously discovered and the perfectibility of LaCoO3 perovskite crystal phase is deteriorated. When x is over 0.7, perovskite crystal phase is weakened or completely disappeared. Considering the crystal phase of oxides, the optimum doped cerium is about 0.3. The perovskite oxides can be formed at a low calcinations temperature of 700℃. When x is 0.3, the highest catalytic activity of T10%(390℃) and T90%(603℃) is obtained on the series of La1-xCexCoO3 δ materials calcined at 800℃.     

Highly nonlinear property and threshold voltage of Sc2O3 doped ZnO-Bi2O3-based varistor ceramics

A series of ZnO-Bi2O3-based varistor ceramics doped with 0-0.4 mol.% Sc2O3 were prepared by high-energy ball milling and sintered at temperatures between 1000 and 1150oC. X-ray diffractometry (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were applied to characterize the phases and microstructure of the varistor ceramics. A DC parameter instrument for varistor ceramics was applied to investigate the electronic properties and V-I characteristics. The results showed that there were no changes in crystal structure with Sc2O3-doped varistor ceramics and that the average size of ZnO grain increased first and then decreased. The best electronic characteristics of the varistor ceramics prepared by high-energy ball milling were found in 0.3 mol.% Sc2O3-doped ZnO-Bi2O3 -based ceramics sintered at 1000 oC, which exhibited a threshold voltage of 821 V/mm, nonlinear coefficient of 62.1 and leakage current of 0.16 μA.     

The role of particle size on the laser sintering of iron powder

The effects of powder particle size on the densification and microstructure of iron powder in the direct laser sintering process were investigated. Iron powders with particle sizes ranging from 10 to 200 μm were used. It was found that the sintered density increases as the laser energy input is increased. There is, however, a saturation level at which higher density cannot be obtained even at very intensive energy input. This saturation density increases as the size of the iron particles decreases. Meanwhile fine powders with narrow particle size distributions have a tendency toward agglomeration, and coarse powders with broad particle size distributions have a tendency toward segregation, both of them resulting in lower attainable density. In order to investigate the role of particle size, a “densification coefficient (K)” was defined and used. This coefficient depends on the particle size and the oxygen content of iron powder. The results of this investigation demonstrate that the presence of oxygen significantly influences the densification and pore morphology of laser-sintered iron. At higher oxygen concentrations, the iron melt pool is solidified to agglomerates, and formation of pores with orientation toward the building direction is more likely to occur. When the oxygen concentration is kept constant, the densification coefficient decreases with decreasing the particle size, meaning the densification kinetics enhances. This article presents the role of powder characteristics and the processing parameters in the laser sintering of iron powder as a model material. The mechanism of particle bonding and microstructural features of laser-sintered parts are addressed.     

Influence of annealing on spin state of cobalt ions in La1-xSrxCoO3（0≤x≤0.5） system

Perovskite oxide La1-xSrxCoO3 (0≤x≤0.5) series were prepared and effect of oxygen annealing on crystal structure and magnetic susceptibility were studied. High-temperature susceptibility could be well fitted by Curie-Weiss law for all Sr-doped samples. Weiss constant and effective magnetic moment were determined, and their variations with Sr doping and oxygen annealing condition were obtained. The result suggested that by assuming that the Co3+ ions were in the intermediate-spin (IS) state, most of the Co4+ ions in the as-prepared samples might be in the high-spin (HS) state, but both the Co3+ and Co4+ ions might be in the IS state after oxygen annealing, which indicated that annealing in flowing oxygen could cause transition of the spin state of Co4+ ions from the HS state to IS state.     

Magnetic and Transport Properties of La0.5-x Ndx Ba0.5 CoO3 Compounds

Substituting effects of Nd for La in La0.5Ba0.5CoO3 compounds were studied systematically. The results show that Nd doping does not change the itinerant properties of the Co3d electrons. The molecular magnetic moment of the mate-rials decreases monotonically with increasing Nd dopant. When Nd content x ≥0.45, a magnetic phase separation appears in the materials. When x ≤0.45, the Curie temperature decreases monotonically with increasing Nd dopant. This is due to the size effects of the rare earth ions. The electric resistance measurements show that in the studied temperature range, the conduction of the materials belongs to the thermo-diffusion conduction below the Curie temperature, while it belongs to the variable range hopping conduction of polarons over the Curie temperature.     

Magnetic Coupling in La0.67 Ca0.33 MnO3／La0.67 Sr0.33 CoO3／La0.67 Ca0.33MnO3 Trilayer Films

The perovskite La0.67 Ca0.33 MnO3/La0.67 Sr0.33 CoO3/La0.67 Ca0.33 MnO3 trilayers were fabricated by a facing-target sputtering technique and their magnetotransport properties were investigated. The magnetoresistance is dependent on spacer thickness and dramatically decreases when La0.67 Sr0.33 CoO3 layer is thick enough because of its short-circuiting effect. Different from La0.67 Ca0.33 MnO3 single layer, trilayer films with thin La0.67 Sr0.33 CoO3 spacer have the enhanced metal-semiconductor transition temperature (TMS) of La0.67 Ca0.33 MnO3 layers. The magnetic coercivity Hc shows a nonmonotonic behavior with changing the spacer layer thickness at 230 K. The waist-like hysteresis indicates that there is an indirect exchange coupling between the top and bottom Lao.67 Ca0.33 MnO3 layers across the spacer La0.67 Sr0.33 CoO3 layer.     

Substituting Effect of Y in La0.5Ba0.5 CoO3

La0.5-xYxBa0.5CoO3 polycrystals were prepared by solid state reaction. The substituting effects of Y for La on the magnetic and transport properties of the materials were studied systematically. The results indicate that substitution of Y induces two effects. Firstly, the charge transfer from Y to 3d orbital of Co happens. This causes the molecular magnetic moment to decrease. Secondly, the antiferromagnetic exchange interaction of Co ions appears. When the content of Y is less than or equal to 30%, the non-colinear structure of spins in materials is observed. When the content of Y is greater than 30%, the materials transit from predominant ferromagnetic state to predominant antiferromagnetic one. The conductive mechanism for the materials with different content of Y belongs to the variable range hopping conduction of polarons.The resistivity of materials increases sharply with increasing Y content.     

Magnetic Properties of La1-xSrxCoO3 (0≤x≤0.5)

The measurements of temperature dependence of the magnetic susceptibility of La1-xSrxCoO3 perovskite oxides at different Sr doping (0≤x≤0.5) and annealing temperature were presented. For the sample with x=0.1, a shoulder was observed around 150 K, and a peak which is one feature of spin glass appeared around 50 K in the curve of susceptibility versus temperature. The high-temperature(250～420 K)susceptibility fits well with Curie-Weiss law for all samples. Weiss constant and effective magnetic moment were determined and their variations with Sr doping and oxygen annealing condition were obtained. The Weiss constant increases monotonously with Sr content for x>0.2. The values of effective moments were interpreted with the spin state of cobalt ions. Studies on the susceptibilities of the samples with x=0.2 under different preparation temperatures and annealing temperatures show that the rising of sintering temperature and annealing temperature will increase the para-ferromagnetic transition temperature, and reduce the effective moment to normal value. Our result shows that both Co3 and Co4 ions should be in IS state after annealing and the oxygen annealing causes the transition of Co3 spin state from HS to IS.     

La-Ce共掺杂制备La3+-Ce3+/ZnO及其对亚甲基蓝的光催化降解

采用溶胶凝胶法制备了La-Ce共掺杂的La3+-Ce3+/ZnO光催化剂,同时用同种方法制备了ZnO、La3+/ZnO和Ce3+/ZnO以作对比.通过X射线衍射仪、透射电镜、紫外可见分光光度计,比表面及孔隙度分析仪等对制备的光催化剂进行了表征.以亚甲基蓝为模型污染物对所制备的光催化剂的光催化特性进行了评价.结果表明,所制备的La3+-Ce3+/ZnO光催化剂基本呈长方柱状,尺寸平均为57.3 nm,La-Ce共掺杂提高了ZnO的结晶度,促进了晶粒的长大.根据光催化实验结果,La-Ce共掺杂能够显著提高ZnO的光催化活性.在光催化降解500 mL的10 mg·L-1亚甲基蓝实验中,La3+-Ce3+/ZnO光催化剂对亚甲基蓝的降解率达93.7%,比纯ZnO、La3+-ZnO和Ce3+-ZnO分别提高了21.4%、19.2%和9.3%.      

Gd掺杂CdTe薄膜的结构和光学特性研究

用真空热蒸发法在玻璃衬底制备CdTe和Cd掺杂CdTe薄膜.研究热处理和Gd掺杂量对CdTe薄膜结构、光学特性的影响.结果表明,薄膜均为立方闪锌矿结构,Gd的掺入没有改变薄膜的晶体结构,但使薄膜的晶粒尺寸减小,晶格常数和晶胞体积略有增大,并使其择优取向由[220]晶向变为[111]晶向.掺Gd使薄膜在可见光范围透过率增强,但对光能隙影响不大.     

Kinetics Researches of La1-x SrxMnO3 Powder by Microwave Synthesis

The La1 -xSrxMnO3 is the cathode materials of SOFC, which is the key part of SOFC.The production technology of La1 -xSrxMnO3 materials is widely studied with efficiency, saving energy and environment friend.Microwave synthesis was used to produce La1 -xSrxMnO3.The kinetics course of synthesizing La1-xSrxMnO3 materials by microwave technology was discussed.Using DTA-TGA and XRD analysis, the process and principle of solid reaction were examined.The results show that the reaction time and grain size of raw materials are important factor.When reaction time increases from 4 to 15 min, the crystal structure of La1 -xSrxMnO3 formes gradually.Through analysis of kinetics model, the reaction principle of La1-xSrxMnO3 was gained by microwave synthesis and the kinetics equation was built.     

Magnetic Transition of La0.8Sr0.2Mn1-xCoxO3（x =0, 0.3, 0.5, 1.0）

A series of rare earth compound oxides with the formula of La0.8Sr0.2Mn1-xCoxO3（ were prepared by the method of citric acid. Structures, figures and magnetic properties of the x=0.0, 0.3, 0.5, 1.0） samples were analyzed by means of XRD, SEM and SQUID. Experiment results prove that all the samples are hexagonal, but their figures and magnetic properties are different. La0.8Sr0.2MnO3 is ferromagnetic. La0.8Sr0.2Mn0.7CO0.3O3 and La0.8Sr0.2Mn0.5Co0.5O3 are ferrimagnetic. La0.8Sr0.2CoO3 is antiferromagnetic. SEM results indicate that the structure of the first three are three-dimensional reticulations which are made up of some small ellipsoids which link up at the head and the end. The fourth sample looks like some dispersed small balls.