Research and development of lead-free piezoelectric materials are still the hottest topics in the field of piezoelectricity. One of the most promising lead-free family of compounds to replace lead zirconate-titanate for actuators is that of Bi0.50Na0.50TiO₃ (BNT) based solid solutions. The pseudo-binary (1 - x)Bi0.50Na0.50TiO₃-xBa1 - yCayTiO₃ system has been proposed for high temperature capaci...

Trivalent lanthanide (Eu(3+), Tb(3+) and Dy(3+)) ions activated tunable color emitting BaGd2O4 (BG) phosphors were synthesized by a facile Pechini-type sol-gel process. The X-ray diffraction pattern confirmed the orthorhombic phase after annealing at 1300 °C for 5 h. Morphological studies were performed based on the analysis of transmission electron microscopy images, which showed needle type n...

Beryllium oxide (BeO) is considered to be an attractive alternative material for use in future industries areas such as semiconductors, spacecraft, aircraft, and rocket technologies due its high bandgap energy, useful melting point, good thermal conductivity, dielectric constants. In this context, our approach a novel method produce BeO thin films based on two-step spin-coating innovation of th...

ZnAl2O4 spinel powders were prepared using the Pechini or co-precipitation synthetic route and were then treated at different temperatures (600–1350 °C). These powders were characterised by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), diffuse reflectance and luminescence measurements. SEM investigations and the X-ray patterns showed that the spinel crystallite size was dependent on th...