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Studies on structural, electrical, thermal and magnetic properties of YFeO3 ceramic

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The polycrystalline ceramic sample of YFeO3 has been synthesized by high-temperature solid-state reaction method using high-purity oxides. The formation of the compound has been confirmed by the room temperature (RT) X-ray diffraction analysis. The refined lattice parameters obtained by Rietveld analysis are: a = 5.5907 Å, b = 7.6082 Å and c = 5.2849 Å with orthorhombic symmetry in space group Pnma. The average grain size obtained from the SEM micrograph is around 2 µm. The three-dimensional surface morphology has been investigated using atomic force microscopy (AFM), and the average roughness measured in the sampling area of 100.07 µm2 is around 142 nm. The frequency- and temperature-dependent dielectric constant has been measured. The material shows high dielectric constant value (750) at RT. The activation energy obtained from dc conductivity using Arrhenius relation σ = σ oexp(−Ea/kT) is 2.12 eV. Thermal analysis shows phase change around 625 K with minimum weight loss (i.e. 1.27% of initial weight) from RT to 1273 K. The magnetization measurement indicates soft magnetic behaviour.

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Authors are thankful to Dr. N. Lakshmi and Dr. S. Kumar for their help in X-ray, VSM and AFM measurements. Two authors Mr. Lokesh Suthar and Mr. V. K. Jha are thankful to UGC for providing the UGC-BSR fellowship.

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    Lokesh Suthar, V. K. Jha, Falguni Bhadala & M. Roy

  2. Department of Physics, B.N. University, Udaipur, 313001, Rajasthan, India

    S. Sahu

  3. Department of Physics, J. N. V. University, Jodhpur, 342011, Rajasthan, India

    S. K. Barbar

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Suthar, L., Jha, V.K., Bhadala, F. et al. Studies on structural, electrical, thermal and magnetic properties of YFeO3 ceramic. Appl. Phys. A 123, 668 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-017-1272-z

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