1. Investigation of Magnetic and Optical Properties of Mn-Doped SnO2 at Different Annealing Temperatures.
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Sunaina, A. Sharma and Sharma, P.
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MAGNETIC properties , *OPTICAL properties , *BAND gaps , *ULTRAVIOLET-visible spectroscopy , *TEMPERATURE , *MAGNETOOPTICS , *TIN oxides , *MANGANESE , *DOPING agents (Chemistry) , *COPRECIPITATION (Chemistry) , *X-ray diffraction , *SINTERING , *ANNEALING of crystals - Abstract
In this paper, a systematic investigation has been done to study the effect of variation in annealing temperature on magnetic and optical properties of Mn-doped SnO2. Coprecipitation technique has been used to synthesize Sn1-xMnxO2 samples with low Mn concentration (2%). Pristine SnO2 is sintered at 350 °C. Mn-doped SnO2 samples are sintered at 350, 450, 550 and 650 °C. The structures of tetragonal rutile of SnO2 and Mndoped SnO2 have been confirmed by the XRD pattern. Typical ferromagnetic ordering has been observed for Mn-doped SnO2 samples annealed at different temperatures. However, on increasing the annealing temperature saturation magnetization as well as the coercive field decreases, indicating a crucial phase transformation from ferromagnetism to paramagnetism. UV-Vis spectroscopy shows increase in absorbance and a slight shift in the absorption edge with Mn-doping at increasing annealing temperature indicating shifting of absorption peak towards higher wavelength. Tauc's plot has been used to find the optical band gap (Eg). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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