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Study on growth, optical and dielectric properties of ‘Nd’ DOPED NBT-BT (0.94(Na0.5Bi0.5tio3)-0.06batio3) relaxor ferroelectric single crystals

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The present work describes the effect of Neodymium (Nd) in the NBT-BT (0.94Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-0.06BaTiO3 (NBT-BT (94/06)) + xNd (x = 0, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0 wt%)) crystal grown by flux method. As the concentration of the Nd increases beyond 0.4 wt%, homogeneity of the solution is lost and the multinucleation was observed. Color of the crystal changed from yellow to muddy green and size of the crystals were reduced due to the incorporation of Nd in NBT-BT. Nd completely diffused into the NBT-BT lattice, hence no secondary phase formation was observed in XRD. But the peaks were shifted towards the higher angle side due to the shrinkage of NBT-BT lattice. Optical properties of the crystals are studied using UV–visible and photoluminescence spectra. Except 0.4 wt% of Nd, for all other concentration emission at 1064 nm was observed in the PL spectra. Effect of Nd in dielectric constant and the relaxor properties are discussed in detail.

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One of the authors SSS is very thankful to DST-WoS A, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India (SR/WOS-A/PM-109/2016) for the financial support to carry out this work.

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  1. Department of Physics, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore, 600004, India

    Shanmuga Sundari Sankaran

  2. Crystal Growth Centre, Anna University, Chennai, 600025, India

    Shanmuga Sundari Sankaran & Dhanasekaran. R

  3. Department of Physics & Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi, 110007, India

    Binay Kumar

  4. I3N and Physics Department, University of Aveiro, 3810193, Aveiro, Portugal

    Durairajan. A & Valente M.A.

  5. Department of Chemistry, SRM Valliammai Engineering College, Chennai, 603203, India

    Devaraj Stephen. L

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Sankaran, S.S., R, D., Kumar, B. et al. Study on growth, optical and dielectric properties of ‘Nd’ DOPED NBT-BT (0.94(Na0.5Bi0.5tio3)-0.06batio3) relaxor ferroelectric single crystals. J Electroceram 48, 143–156 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10832-022-00282-x

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