Abstract
A sodium cobalt germanate material (Na2CoGeO4) was synthesized and studied. The X-ray powder diffraction pattern revealed a monoclinic crystal system with the Pn space group. The calculated value of the direct bandgap (Eg) was (3.89 ± 0.02) eV. Electrical measurements were undertaken in a frequency range from 40 Hz to 1 MHz and a temperature range from 403 K to 573 K. Nyquist plots revealed only a semicircle in the whole impedance spectra due to the effect of interior grains. The AC conductivity of Na2CoGeO4 was associated with the correlated barrier hopping (CBH) model. Studies of the complex electric modulus M*(ω) confirmed that the relaxation process was thermally activated.
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