structural, thermal and electrical property of polycrystalline lalimo2o8多晶lalimo2o8结构、热、电性质.pdf

New Journal of Glass and Ceramics, 2012, 2, 7-12 7 /10.4236/njgc.2012.21002 Published Online January 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/njgc) Structural, Thermal and Electrical Property of Polycrystalline LaLiMo2O8 1* 2 3 Sanjaya Brahma , Ram Naresh Prasad Choudhary , Awalendra Kumar Thakur , Srinivasarao Ajjampur Shivashankar1 1Materials Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; 2Department of Physics, Institute of Technical Education and Research, Siksha O Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, India; 3Department of Physics and Meteorology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. * Email: sanjayaphysics@ Received August 20th, 2011; revised October 6th, 2011; accepted October 15th, 2011 ABSTRACT This research article reports electrical characterization of a rare earth molybdate based on combination of rare earth 3+ + (La ) and alkali (Li ) metal ions. The experimental observation suggests the negative temperature coefficient of resis- tance behavior of the material. The material has been prepared by standard solid state reaction method, where the syn- thesis conditions have been optimized by thermal analysis. A possible mechanism for the formation of the polycrystal- line LaLiMo O is reported. A systematic analysis has been done to determine the crystal structure of the powder mate- 2 8 rial and it was found that the powder material was crystallized to tetragonal unit cell structure. Electrical properties have been studied using a.c. impedance measurement. The temperature variation of electrical conductivity of the material shows typical Arrhenius behavior. The activation energy evaluated from conducti