The present study involves co-precipitation method to grow un-doped and Zr-doped bismuth iron oxide with x_(Zr)=0.10–0.30. The molar solutions of ferric chloride(FeCl_3), zirconyle chloride(ZrOCl_2), and bismut...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50802041);the National Key Projects for Basic Research of China (Grant No. 2010CB923404);Southeast University
Zn0.98Cu0.020 powders are prepared by the sol-gel method. A small number of CuO impurity phases are observed by the x-ray diffraction, indicating the solubility of Cu in ZnO is less than 2 at.%. The Zn0.98Cu0.020 powd...