For the first time, a new facile approach based on simple and inexpensive chemical spray pyrolysis (CSP) technique is used to deposit Tungsten (W) doped nanocrystalline SnO2 thin films. The textural, optical, structural and sensing properties are investigated by GAXRD, UV spectroscopy, FESEM, AFM, and home-built sensing setup. The gas sensing results indicate that, as compared to pure SnO2, 1 wt % W-doping improves sensitivity along with better response (<2 s) and recovery time (<25 s) toward NO2 gas at operating temperatures of ∼225 °C. The optimal composition of 1 wt % W-doped films exhibit lowest crystallite size of the order of ∼8-10 nm with reduced energy band gap and large roughness values of 3.82 eV and 3.01 nm, respectively. Reduction in texture coefficient along highly dense (110) planes with concomitant increase along loosely packed (200) planes is found to have prominent effect on gas sensing properties of W-doped films.
The recent surge
in the usage of electronics has led to a new kind
of problem; electromagnetic interference which necessitates finding
alternate materials that offer ease of processing, design flexibility,
light weight, and ease of embedding and integrating with the existing
systems in place as shields to protect the precise electronic circuitry.
Herein, lightweight polycarbonate (PC)-based nanocomposites using
doped graphene derivatives and multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT)
has been explored for effective shielding of EM radiation in X- and
Ku-band. To get a mechanistic insight as to how the dopant in graphene
derivatives influences the EM shielding properties, two dopants have
been explored here: ferrimagnetic (ferrite, Fe3O4) and the other one as paramagnetic (gadolinium oxide, Gd2O3). The doped graphene derivatives when composited with
PC and MWCNTs resulted in materials that can shield the incoming EM
radiation through magnetic and dielectric losses. This strategy of
doping improves the state of dispersion of these dopants in the nanocomposites,
besides enhancing the shielding effectiveness. The PC-based nanocomposites
illustrated a total shielding effectiveness (SET) of −28
and −33 dB at 18 GHz for a given concentration of Gd2O3 and Fe3O4 hybrid, respectively.
A closer look into the mechanism of shielding reveals that irrespective
of the dopant, various losses (magnetic and dielectric) decide the
shielding effectiveness in polymeric nanocomposites facilitated by
multiple internal reflections. Taken together, this study brings in
new insight as to how the losses contribute toward effective shielding
rather than the choice of the dopant and will help guide researchers
working in this area from both industrial as well as academic perspective.
Magnetic anomalies corresponding to the Verwey transition and reorientation of anisotropic vacancies are observed at 151 K and 306 K, respectively, in NiCoFe2O4 nanoparticles (NPs) synthesized by a modified-solvothermal method followed by annealing. Cationic disorder and spherical shape induced non-stoichiometry suppress the Verwey transition in the as-synthesized NPs. On the other hand, reorientation of anisotropic vacancies is quite robust. XRD and electron microscopy investigations confirm a single phase spinel structure and the surface morphology of the as-synthesized NPs changes from spherical to octahedral upon annealing. Rietveld analysis reveals that the Ni(2+) ions migrate from tetrahedral (A) to octahedral (B) sites upon annealing. The Mössbauer results show canted spins in both the NPs and the strength of superexchange is stronger in Co-O-Fe than Ni-O-Fe. Magnetic force images show that the as-synthesised NPs are single-domain whereas the annealed NPs are multi-domain octahedral particles. The FMR study reveals that both the NPs have a broad FMR line-width; and resonance properties are consistent with the random anisotropy model. The broad inhomogeneous FMR line-width, observation of the Verwey transition, tuning of the magnetic domain structure as well as the magnetic properties suggest that the NiCoFe2O4 ferrite NPs may be promising for future generation spintronics, magneto-electronics, and ultra-high-density recording media as well as for radar absorbing applications.
We report the experimental results of CeRu 2 Al 10 by means of transport, thermal, as well as 27 Al nuclear magnetic resonance ͑NMR͒ measurements. This material has been of current interest due to indications of heavy-fermion behavior accompanied by the presence of an anomalous phase transition at T o ϳ 27 K. The phase transition has been characterized by marked features near T o in all measured physical quantities. The NMR observations clearly indicated the nonmagnetic ground state in CeRu 2 Al 10 . Furthermore, the opening of an energy gap of about 100 K over the Fermi surfaces was obtained from the analysis of low-temperature specific-heat and Knight-shift data. Above T o , the transport and thermoelectric properties can be well described by a two-band model with reliable physical parameters. Remarkably, the extracted value of quasielastic linewidth q f ϳ 55 K is found to agree well with that observed in the recent neutron-scattering measurement.
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