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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 42, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/42/2/025404
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- University Grants Commission, New Delhi, India
- Department of Science and Technology through the DST- to Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune
- Inter University Consortium for DAE Facilities (IUC-DAEF), Indore, India
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A new improved pulsed spray pyrolysis technique (PSPT) was employed to deposit a vanadium oxide (V2O5) thin film from a methanolic vanadium chloride precursor onto glass and conducting F:SnO2 coated glass substrates. The structural, morphological, electrical, optical and spectroscopic properties of the film deposited at 573K were studied. Infrared spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction confirmed the presence of the V2O5 phase. The V2O5 film (thickness similar to 118 nm) is polycrystalline with a tetragonal crystal structure. Scanning electron microscopy reveals compact granular morphology consisting of similar to 80-100 nm size grains. The film is transparent in the visible region (average %T similar to 70%) with an optical band gap energy of 2.47 eV involving both direct and indirect optical transitions. The room temperature electrical resistivity (conductivity) of the film is 1.6 x 10(8) Omega cm (6.25 x 10(-9) S cm(-1)) with an activation energy of 0.67 eV in the temperature range 300-550 K. It exhibited cathodic electrochromism in the lithium containing electrolyte (0.5 M LiClO4 + propylene carbonate).
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