Impedance spectroscopy studies of nanosturctured ZnO based varistor materials

被引:9
作者
Viswanath, RN [1 ]
Ramasamy, SN [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Madras, Dept Nucl Phys, Sch Phys Sci, Chennai 600025, Tamil Nadu, India
关键词
zinc oxide; varistor material and impedance spectroscopy;
D O I
10.2320/matertrans.42.1647
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Varistor material with 96 mol%ZnO + 4 mol% dopants in oxide form of Bi, Co, Sb, B, Cu and Sn in nanostructured form has been synthesized using colloidal suspension and centrifugal separation method. The synthesized powder sample specimen was compacted into a pellet and sintered in air at 1073 K for 3 h to get a bulk density of 96%. In situ impedance spectroscopy (IS) studies have been carried out for the sintered nanostructured specimen at various temperatures in oxygen and nitrogen atmosphere. The impedance spectroscopy results below 423 K show that the specimen contains three activation energy regions which are attributed to (i) pure ZnO core grain (ii) aliovalent cation diffused layer around the pure ZnO core and (Iii) grain boundary (OB). The specimen changes its conducting nature at and above 423 K. The a.c. conductivity was measured at fixed frequencies ( 10(6) Hz and 10(2) Hz) as a function of temperature. The conductivity of bulk grain and grain boundary regions increases with the increase of temperature. Eventhough the conductivity value of bulk grain and grain boundary regions increases with temperature, the rate of change of conductivity in grain boundary region is larger than that in bulk grain, The GB conductivity becomes almost equal to that of bulk grains at high temperatures. The change of grain boundary conductivity with temperature is faster in N-2 atmosphere compared to the change in O-2 atmosphere. Due to this dominant grain boundary conductivity, the varistor action of the sample is lost at high temperatures in nitrogen atmosphere (air).
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页码:1647 / 1652
页数:6
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