Positron annihilation in off-stoichiometric and ta-doped Zn2TiO4

Guagliardo, PR; Vance, ER; Lumpkin, GR; Blackford, MG; Sudarshan, K; Davis, J; Samarin, S; Williams, JF

Positron annihilation in off-stoichiometric and ta-doped Zn2TiO4

Date

2013-08-08

Authors

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons

Abstract

While Zn vacancies are regarded as the charge compensators in Ti-rich Zn2TiO4, no evidence of cation vacancies in essentially single-phase samples containing up to 13 wt% excess TiO2 was evident from positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS). Nor was there strong evidence of cation vacancies in Ta-doped samples targeted to contain either tetrahedral or octahedral vacancies, although there was a small increase in the lifetime as the doping level increased and the structure changed from cubic to tetragonal. © 2013, The American Ceramic Society.

Keywords

Cations, Neutron diffraction, Spectroscopy, Scanning electron microscopy, Experimental data, Zinc ions

Citation

Guagliardo, P. R., Vance, E. R., Lumpkin, G. R., Blackford, M. G., Sudarshan, K., Davis, J., Samarin, S., & Williams, J. F. (2013). Positron annihilation in off-stoichiometric and ta-doped Zn2TiO4. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 96(10), 3286-3289. doi:10.1111/jace.12454