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[Ca24Al28O64]4+(4e–) eletride, as the first room-temperature stable inorganic electride, has attracted intensive attention because of its fascinating chemical, electrical, optical, and magnetic properties. However, it usually needs synthesizing through a complicated multistep process involving high temperature (e.g., 1350 °C), severe reduction (e.g., 700–1300 ℃ for up to 240 h in Ca or Ti metal vapor atmosphere) and post-purification. Owing to the H2O sensitivity of mayenite, the post-purification is quite troublesome once impurities are introduced. High-density, loosely bound encaged electrons with a low work function make it promise to possess practical applications. Therefore the facile method of massively producing the high-quality C12A7:e– with high Ne is extremely desired. In this work, C12A7:e– bulks are for the first time synthesized by simple spark plasma sintering process directly from a mixture of C12A7, CA and Ca powders under milder conditions (e.g., sintered at 1070 ℃ for 10 min in a vacuum). The obtained electride, which exhibits a relative density of 99%, an electron concentration of ~2.3×1021 cm–3 and an obvious absorption peak at 2.5 eV, is obtained via SPS process at 1100 ℃ for 10 min. Electronic structure is also investigated by electron paramagnetic resonance. The occurrence of Dysonian characteristic, a typical feature of good electronic conductors, strongly suggests that the electrons are trapped in mayenite cavities. Furthermore, the obtained C12A7:e– exhibits good sinterabilty on a crystal scale of 5–40 μm. Thermionic emission test results show that the thermionic emission begins to occur at 700 K and a large current density of 1.75 A/cm2 is obtained in the electron thermal emission from a flat surface of the polycrystalline C12A7:e– with an effective work function of 2.09 eV for a temperature of 1373 K with an applied electric field of ~35000 V/cm in a vacuum. Owing to no external reductant is needed, this developed route exhibits notable superiority over the conventional reduction method for phase-pure C12A7:e–. Therefore, these results not only suggest a novel precursor for fabricating mayenite electride but also make it possible to produce efficiently the electride in large volume.
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Keywords:
- C12A7:e– /
- calciothermic reaction /
- thermionic emission
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图 1 C12A7+CA混合前驱体烧结前后XRD与实物照片
Figure 1. Powder X-ray diffraction patterns of precursor before and after SPS process, insets are digital pictures of the precursor and the obtained electride.
图 2 C12A7:e–扫描照片
Figure 2. SEM images of the sintered C12A7:e– ceramic.
图 3 (a) 样品的顺磁共振图谱; (b) 样品的紫外吸收光谱
Figure 3. (a) EPR spectra of the sintered C12A7 bulk; (b) optical absorption spectra of the sintered C12A7:e– powders.
图 4 (a) 不同温度下发射电流密度随电场强度的变化; (b) 零场电流密度的拟合直线; (c) Richardson直线; (d) 发射稳定性曲线
Figure 4. (a) Emission current density as a function of electric field at various in the range of 973 to 1373 K; (b) Schottky plots at various temperatures, fitting of the curves result in zero field emission current density at each temperature; (c) Richardson plot of the sample; (d) scatter plot of the emission current density versus time.
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Liu H L, Zhang X, Wang Y, Xiao Y X, Zhang J X 2018 Acta Phys. Sin. 67 048101
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Google Scholar
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