Investigation of the Electrical Properties of Vacuum Annealed Titanium Oxide-Containing Ceramics
VII Students Meeting "Processing and Application of Ceramics": Book of Abstracts 2009
Agnese Pūra, Jānis Barloti, Valdis Teteris, Jānis Ločs, Līga Bērziņa-Cimdiņa

Titanium oxide ceramics were prepared using extrusion process and subsequent thermal treatment in two stages – in air atmosphere at 1150°C and than in vacuum at temperatures between 1200 and 1350°C. Influence of thermal treatment conditions on microstructure and electrical properties (thermopower, conductivity of semiconductor and electron activation energy) of obtained ceramics was investigated. It was confirmed that all samples treated in vacuum are n-type semiconductors. It was also found that the increase of temperature during sintering in vacuum leads to increased electrical conductivity, however, the highest thermopower values were obtained for samples thermally treated in vacuum at 1225°C. Electron activation energy (ΔE), calculated using dependence of conductivity of samples on temperature, was is in the range from 0.049 to 0.061 eV. The obtained products can be used as electrodes for water treatment technology based on photoelectrolysis.


Keywords
titanium oxide, vacuum sintering, microstructure, electrical properties

Pūra, A., Barloti, J., Teteris, V., Ločs, J., Bērziņa-Cimdiņa, L. Investigation of the Electrical Properties of Vacuum Annealed Titanium Oxide-Containing Ceramics. In: VII Students Meeting "Processing and Application of Ceramics": Book of Abstracts, Serbia, Novi Sad, 2-6 December, 2009. Novi Sad: VERZAL, 2009, pp.19-19.

Publication language
English (en)
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