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Article Citation Count: 6Gd and Tb doping effects on the physical properties of Nd2Sn2O7(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2018) Qasrawı, Atef Fayez Hasan; Hamamera, Hanan Z.; Khanfar, Hazem K.; Qasrawi, A. F.; Yumusak, G.; Department of Electrical & Electronics EngineeringIn the current study, we report the light doping effects of the gadolinium and the terbium on the structural, morphological, optical and electrical properties of Nd2Sn2O7 pyrochlore ceramics. The pyrochlore which is prepared by the conventional solid state reaction technique is analyzed by means of scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray analyzer, X-ray diffraction, ultraviolet- visible light spectrophotometry and temperature dependent current -voltage characteristics techniques. It is found that even though the doping content of both metals is low (2%), they significantly alter the physical properties of the pyrochlore. Particularly, it is observed that, these two doping agents increases the lattice parameter and strain and reduces the crystallite size and dislocation density. Optically, the effect of Gd doping on shrinking the energy band gap value of the Nd(2)Sn(2)O(7 )pyrochlore ceramic is more pronounced than that of Tb. On the other hand, the electrical investigations have shown that while the Gd make the pyrochlore exhibit p-type conductivity through forming shallow acceptor levels, the Tb forces n-type conductivity by forming deep donor levels below the conduction band edge. Such acceptor and donor impurity levels increases the electrical conductivity of the Nd(2)Sn(2)O(7 )pyrochlore ceramics by 390 and 58 times, respectively.Article Citation Count: 0Samarium and yttrium doping induced phase transitions and their effects on the structural, optical and electrical properties of Nd2Sn2O7 ceramics(Iop Publishing Ltd, 2019) Qasrawı, Atef Fayez Hasan; Qasrawi, A. F.; Hamamera, Hanan Z.; Khanfar, Hazem K.; Yumusak, G.; Department of Electrical & Electronics EngineeringIn this work, the effects of Sm+3 and Y+3 doping onto the structural, optical and electrical properties of Nd2Sn2O7 are investigated. An atomic content of 3.49% and 4.29% of Sm and Y, respectively, were sufficient to alter the physical properties of the Nd2Sn2O7. Particularly, the Y+3 ionic substitution decreased the lattice constant, narrows the energy band gap, changed the conductivity type from n- to p- type and increased the electrical conductivity by 73 times without changing the cubic nature of structure of the pyrochlore ceramics. On the other hand, Sm+3 ionic substitutions changed the cubic structure to hexagonal or trigonal and forced optical transitions in the infrared range of light. The energy band gap shrunk from 3.40 to 1.40 eV, the defect density is reduced and the electrical conductivity increased by 47 times via Sm doping. These doping agents' makes the neodymium stannate pyrochlore ceramics more appropriates for optoelectronic applications.