Subrat Kumar Barik
Articles written in Pramana – Journal of Physics
Volume 83 Issue 4 October 2014 pp 571-577 Research Articles
Molecular and impedance spectroscopy of Na2Mo2O7 ceramics
Subrat Kumar Barik Sandeep Chatterjee R N P Choudhary
The fine (i.e. 38 nm) powder of polycrystalline Na2Mo2O7 was prepared by the hightemperature solid-state reaction technique. The formation of the compound in orthorhombic system is confirmed by preliminary structural analysis using X-ray diffraction (XRD) data. Spectroscopic studies of the compound have been carried out by vibration spectroscopy (Raman/FTIR) to understand its molecular structure at microscopic level. The complex impedance spectroscopy (CIS) technique has been used to study the electrical properties of the material as a function of frequency (102–10$^6$ Hz) at different temperatures (23–450°C), and also to investigate the fundamental mechanism involved in the material. Impedance analysis also indicates that below 300°C, the electrical conduction in the material is due to grain interior only. At and above 325°C, the contribution of grain boundary is clearly evident. The electrical processes in the material are found to be temperature-dependent and are due to the relaxation phenomena in it. A frequency-dependent maximum of the imaginary electrical impedance is found to obey the Vogel–Fulcher law.
Volume 97, 2023
All articles
Continuous Article Publishing mode
Click here for Editorial Note on CAP Mode
© 2022-2023 Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru.