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Electrical and magnetic studies on promising Aurivillius intergrowth compound

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Aurivillius intergrowth multiferroic phases are inspiring to many researchers owing to their scientific and technological application point of view. We have synthesized the intergrowth of promising three-layered Bi3.25La0.75Ti3O12 (BLT) and four-layered Bi4NdTi3Fe0.7Co0.3O15 (BNTF) compounds. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) data was analyzed by comparing our data with a standard eight-layered compound (Bi9Ti6FeO27) and the lattice parameters were evaluated. Showing a shoulder peak at maximum XRD intensity peak (1 1 8) is considered to be a signature of intergrowth formation. Scanning electron microscopic images have shown non-uniform disk-like grains with no preferential orientation. In order to extract information about relaxation species, Nyquist plots (Cole–Cole plots) were drawn at different temperatures. AC activation energies were evaluated from \(\sigma\)ac vs. 1000/T plots, drawn at 10 kHz, 50 kHz and 100 kHz. Based on the impedance studies it is concluded that the hopping mechanism prefers through the doubly ionized oxygen atom vacancies and this phenomenon is corroborated to dielectric relaxation. Room temperature magnetic measurements display a weak ferromagnetic order. The intergrowth compound (BLT–BNTF) displayed ME coefficient (= 0.123 mV/cm–Oe) at lower magnetic fields. This is the most striking factor and helpful to fabricate room temperature Magnetoelectric sensors.

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One author (V Veenachary) is thankful to CSIR-HRDG, New Delhi for providing JRF/SRF. Partial funding by the grants from OU-DST PURSUE-II/80//2021 program is also thankfully acknowledged.

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, impedance and ME measurements were made by VV. Raman spectroscopic measurements were performed by VSP. XRD and SEM measurements were made by SNB. The first draft of the manuscript was written by VV. NVP and GP reviewed and edited the manuscript, and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Veenachary, V., Puli, V.S., Babu, S.N. et al. Electrical and magnetic studies on promising Aurivillius intergrowth compound. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 33, 22614–22627 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-09039-2

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