화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol.97, No.2, 513-518, 2014
Multi-Site and Multi-Ionization of Sn in the Doping of BaTiO3
This article considers the diverse substitutional effects of the Sn cations in the BaTiO3 lattice and its impact on the electrical conduction as a function of A/B stoichiometry, oxygen partial pressure, and temperature. High-density specimens were fabricated in the different oxygen partial pressures to control the valence state of Sn ion. Specifically, the nonstoichiometric materials were sintered in a low pO(2) atmosphere (10(-14)atm at 1320 degrees C) and in a high pO(2) atmosphere (10(-0.21)atm at 1320 degrees C), respectively. It is found that Sn occupying the Ti-site acts as an acceptor dopant, and the electronic conductivity varies from a n-type to p-type transition, with increasing oxygen activity as mostly expected. However, there is an unusual case noted with Sn doping the A-site where the conductivity, sigma, is invariant at high pO(2)'s, i.e., sigma similar to pO(2)(m) with m approximate to 0 in the high pO(2) regime. The variation of the conductivity is explained by a valence changing of Sn ion from +2 to +3 to +4 with increasing oxygen partial pressure, and we model this data across all conditions within a self-consistent defect chemistry model.