Investigation of structural, magnetic and dielectric properties of nano-nickel oxide doped NdFeO3 perovskite compound

This current study was performed in two steps. In first step; NiO nanoparticles were prepared by sol-gel method, α-Fe2O3 was synthesized by controlled precipitation method and NdFeO3 was produced by sol-gel method. In the second step; NdFe1-xNixO3 was synthesized by the ceramic method in the literature with the addition of commercial Nd2O3, nano-NiO and α-Fe2O3 under specified conditions, respectively. Each component constituting the synthesis product was determined by spectral analysis during the synthesis period and the effect of each component on the final products crystal properties were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) but also compounds structures were illustrated by fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, UV-Vis spectroscopy and were detected by magnetic hysteresis with vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM), dielectric behavior (Impedance Analyzer) and band gap. According to the analysis, it was found that especially the neodymium ion had a significant effect on properties of the structure.