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Materials Chemistry and Physics 90 (2005) 234–238 Effect of La O addition and O atmosphere on the electric 2 3 2 properties of SnO2TiO2 L.G.P. Simões a , M.R. Cássia-Santos a , M.M. Oliveira a , E. Longo a,∗, J.A. Varelab a Centro Multidisciplinar de Desenvolvimento de Materiais Cerˆamicos (CMDMC)/LIEC, Departamento de Qu´ımica, UFSCar, C.P. 676, 13565-905 São Carlos, SP, Brazil b Centro Multidisciplinar de Desenvolvimento de Materiais Cerˆamicos (CMDMC)/LIEC, Instituto de Qu´ımica, UNESP, C.P. 355, 14801-970 Araraquara, SP, Brazil Received 7 May 2003; received in revised form 22 October 2003; accepted 7 November 2003 Abstract The electric properties of (Sn, Ti)O doped with 1.00 mol% CoO, 0.05 mol% Nb O and x mol% La O (0.25 ≤ x ≤ 1.00) have been 2 2 5 2 3 studied. Sn0.25 Ti Co Nb doped with 0.50 mol% La O has a nonlinearity coefficient of 6. An increase in the concentration of 0.75 0.01 0.005 2 3 La2 O3 raised its resistivity, thereby altering the electric properties of the material. A thermal treatment in oxygen atmosphere increased the nonlinearity coefficient to a value of 9. © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Varistor; Electrical properties; Oxidizing atmosphere 1. Introduction Atashbar and Sun [10] studied thin films of TiO2