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Fabrication and Characterization of Dielectric ZnCr(2)O(4) Nanopowders and Thin Films for Parallel-Plate Capacitor Applications
We report here the successful shape-controlled synthesis of dielectric spinel-type ZnCr(2)O(4) nanoparticles by using a simple sol-gel auto-combustion method followed by successive heat treatment steps of the resulting powders at temperatures from 500 to 900 °C and from 5 to 11 h, in air. A systemat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10534308/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37763922 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi14091759 |
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author | Mykhailovych, Vasyl Caruntu, Gabriel Graur, Adrian Mykhailovych, Mariia Fochuk, Petro Fodchuk, Igor Rotaru, Gelu-Marius Rotaru, Aurelian |
author_facet | Mykhailovych, Vasyl Caruntu, Gabriel Graur, Adrian Mykhailovych, Mariia Fochuk, Petro Fodchuk, Igor Rotaru, Gelu-Marius Rotaru, Aurelian |
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description | We report here the successful shape-controlled synthesis of dielectric spinel-type ZnCr(2)O(4) nanoparticles by using a simple sol-gel auto-combustion method followed by successive heat treatment steps of the resulting powders at temperatures from 500 to 900 °C and from 5 to 11 h, in air. A systematic study of the dependence of the morphology of the nanoparticles on the annealing time and temperature was performed by using field effect scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) and structure refinement by the Rietveld method, dynamic lattice analysis and broadband dielectric spectrometry, respectively. It was observed for the first time that when the aerobic post-synthesis heat treatment temperature increases progressively from 500 to 900 °C, the ZnCr(2)O(4) nanoparticles: (i) increase in size from 10 to 350 nm and (ii) develop well-defined facets, changing their shape from shapeless to truncated octahedrons and eventually pseudo-octahedra. The samples were found to exhibit high dielectric constant values and low dielectric losses with the best dielectric performance characteristics displayed by the 350 nm pseudo-octahedral nanoparticles whose permittivity reaches a value of ε = 1500 and a dielectric loss tan δ = 5 × 10(−4) at a frequency of 1 Hz. Nanoparticulate ZnCr(2)O(4)-based thin films with a thickness varying from 0.5 to 2 μm were fabricated by the drop-casting method and subsequently incorporated into planar capacitors whose dielectric performance was characterized. This study undoubtedly shows that the dielectric properties of nanostructured zinc chromite powders can be engineered by the rational control of their morphology upon the variation of the post-synthesis heat treatment process. |
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spelling | pubmed-105343082023-09-29 Fabrication and Characterization of Dielectric ZnCr(2)O(4) Nanopowders and Thin Films for Parallel-Plate Capacitor Applications Mykhailovych, Vasyl Caruntu, Gabriel Graur, Adrian Mykhailovych, Mariia Fochuk, Petro Fodchuk, Igor Rotaru, Gelu-Marius Rotaru, Aurelian Micromachines (Basel) Article We report here the successful shape-controlled synthesis of dielectric spinel-type ZnCr(2)O(4) nanoparticles by using a simple sol-gel auto-combustion method followed by successive heat treatment steps of the resulting powders at temperatures from 500 to 900 °C and from 5 to 11 h, in air. A systematic study of the dependence of the morphology of the nanoparticles on the annealing time and temperature was performed by using field effect scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) and structure refinement by the Rietveld method, dynamic lattice analysis and broadband dielectric spectrometry, respectively. It was observed for the first time that when the aerobic post-synthesis heat treatment temperature increases progressively from 500 to 900 °C, the ZnCr(2)O(4) nanoparticles: (i) increase in size from 10 to 350 nm and (ii) develop well-defined facets, changing their shape from shapeless to truncated octahedrons and eventually pseudo-octahedra. The samples were found to exhibit high dielectric constant values and low dielectric losses with the best dielectric performance characteristics displayed by the 350 nm pseudo-octahedral nanoparticles whose permittivity reaches a value of ε = 1500 and a dielectric loss tan δ = 5 × 10(−4) at a frequency of 1 Hz. Nanoparticulate ZnCr(2)O(4)-based thin films with a thickness varying from 0.5 to 2 μm were fabricated by the drop-casting method and subsequently incorporated into planar capacitors whose dielectric performance was characterized. This study undoubtedly shows that the dielectric properties of nanostructured zinc chromite powders can be engineered by the rational control of their morphology upon the variation of the post-synthesis heat treatment process. MDPI 2023-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10534308/ /pubmed/37763922 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi14091759 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Mykhailovych, Vasyl Caruntu, Gabriel Graur, Adrian Mykhailovych, Mariia Fochuk, Petro Fodchuk, Igor Rotaru, Gelu-Marius Rotaru, Aurelian Fabrication and Characterization of Dielectric ZnCr(2)O(4) Nanopowders and Thin Films for Parallel-Plate Capacitor Applications |
title | Fabrication and Characterization of Dielectric ZnCr(2)O(4) Nanopowders and Thin Films for Parallel-Plate Capacitor Applications |
title_full | Fabrication and Characterization of Dielectric ZnCr(2)O(4) Nanopowders and Thin Films for Parallel-Plate Capacitor Applications |
title_fullStr | Fabrication and Characterization of Dielectric ZnCr(2)O(4) Nanopowders and Thin Films for Parallel-Plate Capacitor Applications |
title_full_unstemmed | Fabrication and Characterization of Dielectric ZnCr(2)O(4) Nanopowders and Thin Films for Parallel-Plate Capacitor Applications |
title_short | Fabrication and Characterization of Dielectric ZnCr(2)O(4) Nanopowders and Thin Films for Parallel-Plate Capacitor Applications |
title_sort | fabrication and characterization of dielectric zncr(2)o(4) nanopowders and thin films for parallel-plate capacitor applications |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10534308/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37763922 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi14091759 |
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