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Observation of Vacancies by Positron Trapping in Cerium‐Doped Zirconolites
Author(s) -
Hadley Joseph H.,
Hsu Frank H.,
Hu Yong,
Eric R. Vance,
Bruce D. Begg
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1999.tb01742.x
Subject(s) - lanthanum , cerium , trapping , doping , thermogravimetry , materials science , microanalysis , spectroscopy , positron , analytical chemistry (journal) , positron annihilation , vacancy defect , crystallography , chemistry , inorganic chemistry , nuclear physics , physics , metallurgy , ecology , optoelectronics , organic chemistry , chromatography , quantum mechanics , biology , electron
Positron annihilation lifetime measurements on cerium‐doped zirconolites have given strong indications of positron trapping in samples that have previously been deduced to contain cation vacancies, mainly from X‐ray absorption spectroscopy, thermogravimetry, and microanalysis. The increases in lifetime of the majority lifetime component are ∼20% for samples deduced to contain a few percent of vacant cation sites. Lanthanum‐doped SrTiO 3 samples, in which it is generally agreed that A‐site vacancies are produced via the lanthanum doping, have been used as a model system and similar increases in lifetime have been observed for samples that contain more than ∼0.1 formula units of lanthanum.