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Structure and optical absorption of combustion-synthesized nanocrystalline LiCoO2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2011

Paromita Ghosh ,
S. Mahanty ,
M.W. Raja ,
R.N. Basu  and
H.S. Maiti
Paromita Ghosh
Affiliation:
Fuel Cell and Battery Section, Electroceramics Division, Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata 700 032, India
S. Mahanty
Affiliation:
Fuel Cell and Battery Section, Electroceramics Division, Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata 700 032, India
M.W. Raja
Affiliation:
Fuel Cell and Battery Section, Electroceramics Division, Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata 700 032, India
R.N. Basu*
Affiliation:
Fuel Cell and Battery Section, Electroceramics Division, Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata 700 032, India
H.S. Maiti
Affiliation:
Fuel Cell and Battery Section, Electroceramics Division, Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata 700 032, India
*
a) Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: rnbasu@cgcri.res.in
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Abstract

Nanocrystalline LiCoO2 powders (10–50 nm) were synthesized by a citrate-nitrate combustion process followed by calcination at different temperatures (300–800 °C) in air. Thermogravimetric analyses indicated a sharp combustion at a low temperature of 225 °C, producing fine crystallites. Quantitative phase analyses from the x-ray diffractograms showed that while annealing at 500 °C produced mixed phases of cubic and rhombohedral LiCoO2, annealing at 800 °C resulted in single-phase rhombohedral LiCoO2. Electronic transitions related to the Co 3d bands were investigated by ultraviolet-visible reflectance spectra in absorbance mode and were ascribed to the Co 3d intra-band transition involving t2g and eg orbitals. The d-d transitions underwent a blue shift of about 0.3 eV as the cubic LiCoO2 transformed into the rhombohedral structure with band gap values of about 1.4 and 1.7 eV.

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Crystallographic structureLiOptical properties
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , May 2007 , pp. 1162 - 1167
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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