Historically, the LiCoO2 is the most used as active material for battery positive electrode because of its great potential (3.7 -4.2 V), its interesting specific capacity (150 mA•h•g −1 ) and its excellent life cycle [1]. However, its toxicity, the cobalt cost and its structural instability oriented research towards new materials more stable that can replace it. In another context, hybrid, electrical vehicles and communication (computers and mobile phones...) have increased the scientific and technological research for new materials capable of storing and return energy through a system called accumulator. And research has identified the phosphate olivine structure as the most prolific ceramic material for positive electrode. LiFePO4 is a promising cathode material for Lithium-ion batteries. It provides high thermal stability and is synthesized using low cost materials. Unfortunately LiFePO4 suffers from a low electrical conductivity, which is harmful to its electrochemical performance. Decreasing the particle size, coating the particles with carbon or doping with metal atoms can increase the conductivity of the material. In this paper, we present the synthesis, physico-chemical and electrical characterization of lithium and iron doped Al-phosphorrus-based ceramic. The NPK Fertiliser was used as Al and phosphorus precursors. The powder XRD spectrum shows a possible presence of LiFePO4 and Fe2(PO)3 in the heterostructure. An important quantity of Al is found by EDX spectra which supposed that the most important based atom is Aluminum and not Phosphorus. This can explain the increase of the conductivity value is 10 2 times more important than those found in the literature for LiFePO4.
One of the main objectives of this work was to study the possibilities of valorising the phosphates through the development of a conductive ceramics using NPK fertilizer as a precursor. Phosphorus based powders were synthesized using solid state technique from NPK fertilizer, lithium chloride and iron chloride at different temperatures up to 900?C and ceramic samples were prepared by the powder pressing and sintering at 1100?C. XRD spectra of the calcined powders show various sharp peaks indicating a relatively high degree of crystallinity and presence of different crystalline phases, such as: phosphorus based crystalline compounds (AlPO4 and LiFePO4), ferrite (Fe3O4 and DyFeO3), CaSO4 and K3DyCl6. The prepared phosphorus based ceramics showed very interesting electrical and dielectric properties. Thus, in the future the obtained ceramics could find application in electronic or energy storage devices. However, further investigations are necessary to understand the exact chemical composition and structural characteristics of this material, to better understand the origin of the obtained electrical and dielectric behaviour.
In this work, we try to make a p-type monocristalline silicon pn junction using an easier doping method. We combined spin-coating thin film deposition method and solid doping technique. This technique can be considered as variety of the SOD method.In this study, phosphorous-based gel compounds was prepared and deposited by spin coating. Heat treatment would thus, after deposition of thin layer, diffuse phosphorus atoms into the substrate to obtain a pn diode. Study by Secondary Ions Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) showed a surface phosphorus concentration of 10 20 at/cm 3 incorporated within the silicon substrate to a depth of 300 nm. The microwave phase-shift (µW-PS) technique is used to determine the bulk lifetime (τ b ) of minority carriers. In this technique, the phase-shift between a microwave beam (10 GHz) and a sine-modulated infrared excitation is related to τ b and to the surface recombination velocity (S) (Palais, Clerc, Arcari, Stemmer & Martinuzzi, 2003). The lifetime τ b mean values vary from 7 µs for a p-type Silicon to 97 µs for phosphorus-diffused silicon. The surface recombination velocity S varies from around 500 to 1000 cm.s -1 .
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