Fabrication and characterisation of boron doped barium stabilised bismuth cobalt oxide nanocrystalline ceramic composite

In this paper, the fabrication and characterisation processes of both boron doped and undoped barium stabilised bismuth cobalt oxide nanocrystalline ceramic powders using polymeric precursor were reported. Obtained boron doped barium stabilised bismuth cobalt oxide nanocrystalline ceramic powders, which have been synthesised by polymeric precursor technique at temperatures below 900°C and at atmospheric condition, were characterised by X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared and scanning electron microscopy techniques. According to X-ray results, fcc and bcc phases coexist in the samples of the nanocrystalline ceramic powders. Crystallite sizes for body centred cubic structure were calculated using Scherrer equation for both boron doped and undoped samples. In addition, lattice parameters were calculated for all samples.