Abstract
La-doped barium titanate (Ba1-xLaxTiO3) is an important electronic ceramic material used in a wide variety of applications including in multilayer capacitor, transducers, ferroelectric thin film memories, and positive temperature coefficient resistor (PTCR). In this work, we investigated the changes of the local atomic structure around barium and titanium ions of Ba1-xLaxTiO3 compounds prepared by solid state reaction using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). The X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Structure (XANES) spectra at the Ti K-edge (4966 eV) and Ba LIII-edge (5247 eV) were analyzed. Our findings suggest that La3+ doping can modify the degree of covalency of the Ti-O bonds, but cause no change in the BaTiO3 unit cell volume and the atomic coordinate around Ti4+, Ba2+ions.
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