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Jayakanth Ravichandran
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2010
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Physics
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SrTiO$_3$ is a promising $n$-type oxide semiconductor for thermoelectric energy conversion. Epitaxial thin films of SrTiO$_3$ doped with both La and oxygen vacancies have been synthesized by pulsed laser deposition (PLD). The thermoelectric and galvanomagnetic properties of these films have been characterized at temperatures ranging from 300 K to 900 K and are typical of a doped semiconductor. Thermopower values of double-doped films are comparable to previous studies of La doped single crystals at similar carrier concentrations. The highest thermoelectric figure of merit ($ZT$) was measured to be 0.28 at 873 K at a carrier concentration of $2.5times10^{21}$ cm$^{-3}$.
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We synthesized strontium titanate SrTiO$_3$ (STO), Zr doped $text{Sr}_text{1-x}text{Zr}_text{x}text{Ti}text{O}_3$ and (Zr, Ni) co-doped $text{Sr}_text{1-x}text{Zr}_text{x}text{Ti}_text{1-y}text{Ni}_text{y}text{O}_3$ samples using solid state reaction technique to report their structural, electrical and magnetic properties. The cubic $Pm$-$3m$ phase of the synthesized samples has been confirmed using Rietveld analysis of the powder X-ray diffraction pattern. The grain size of the synthesized materials was reduced significantly due to Zr doping as well as (Zr, Ni) co-doping in STO. The chemical species of the samples were identified using energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. We observed forbidden first order Raman scattering at 148, 547 and 797 cm$^{-1}$ which may indicate nominal loss of inversion symmetry in cubic STO. The absence of absorption at 500 cm$^{-1}$ and within 600-700 cm$^{-1}$ band in Fourier Transform Infrared spectra corroborates Zr and Ni as substitutional dopants in our samples. Due to 4% Zr doping in $text{Sr}_text{0.96}text{Zr}_text{0.04}text{Ti}text{O}_3$ sample dielectric constant, remnant electric polarization, remnant magnetization and coercivity were increased. Notably, in the case of 4% Zr and 10% Ni co-doping we have observed clearly the existence of both FE and FM hysteresis loops in $text{Sr}_{0.96}text{Zr}_{0.04}text{Ti}_{0.90}text{Ni}_{0.10}text{O}_3$ sample. In this co-doped sample, the remnant magnetization and coercivity were increased by $sim$1 and $sim$2 orders of magnitude respectively as compared to those of undoped STO. The coexistence of FE and FM orders in (Zr, Ni) co-doped STO might have the potential for interesting multiferroic applications.
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