The origin of high oxide-ion conductivity and the nature of the intermediate phase in Bi4Ti3O12

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4 days of beam time is requested on HRPD to study the crystal chemistry of the ferroelectric Aurivillius phase Bi4Ti3O12 (Curie Temperature, Tc ~ 675 C, mixed conductor) and a Nb-doped composition (Tc ~ 670 C, dielectric) Bi4Ti2.95Nb0.05O12. The purpose of this experiment is to acquire ND data from 300 to 1000 K to establish accurate crystallographic information related to the changes in polymorphism (including a poorly defined intermediate phase that exists near Tc) and defect chemistry by Nb-doping. Unpublished electrical data and O18 diffusion measurements show Bi4Ti3O12 to have unexpected high levels of oxide-ion conductivity. Understanding the structural origin and conduction mechanism will inform future compositional studies on how to optimise either the oxide-ion conducting (electrolyte) or ferroelectric (insulating) properties of a variety of energy/memory applications.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.83552773
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/83552773
Provenance
Creator Dr Fan Yang; Mr Patrick Wu; Dr Whitney Schmidt; Professor Derek Sinclair; Dr Ivan da Silva Gonzalez; Dr Lin Hao Li
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-11-24T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-11-28T08:00:00Z