Desenvolvimento e caracterização estrutural de óxidos magnéticos diluídos a partir da matriz de TiO2

Abstract

Transition metals doped in seminconductors are diluted magnetic semiconductors, SMDs, combining magnetic and semiconducting properties have a large potential for application in spintronic technologies. In this study titanium dioxide, TiO2 was synthesized for polymeric precursors’s method, known as the Pechini method. This method is based on a sequence of heat treatments and chemical procedures that result in powders polycrystalline nanostructured. In the first stage of this study, the experimental were performed to evaluated conditions and parameters of the Pechini method in formation temperature of the crystalline phases of pure anatase and rutile TiO2. After evaluated the temperature of each phase desired, Co (II) and Mn (II) transition metals ions in the molar concentration 3, 6, 9 e 12% have been incorporated into TiO2 matrix, forming Ti1-xMTxO2 (MT = Co or Mn) system. Heat treatment performed in the temperature to formation of polymorphs TiO2, anatase phase has been achieved by incorporating ions of Co(II) and Mn(II) with the absence of spurious phases, and the rutile phase by incorporating Mn(II) ions. These crystalline phases in the systems were determined by using x-ray diffraction (XRD) and Raman vibrational spectroscopy and X-ray absorption (XAS) was used to determined the valence state and evaluted the local environment of the ions site insertion in TiO2 lattice. The microestructure and compositions distributions were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive x-ray (SEM-EDS) and transmission (TEM). In the end, we present a study of the magnetic behavior of the materials obtained as a function of the phase, amount of substituent and temperature. We observed a paramagnetic behavior for all compositions obtained.