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Efficient humidity-sensitive electrical response of annealed lithium substituted nickel ferrite (Li–NiFe2O4) nanoparticles under ideal, real and corrosive environments

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The Li–NiFe2O4 nanoparticles have been prepared via simple cost effective chemical co-precipitation method. X-ray diffraction analysis affirms the cubic spinel structure and particle size is ~ 32 nm. SEM and TEM analysis were revealed the needle shape of nanoparticles with agglomeration. XPS and FT-IR spectrum confirmed composition and usual behaviour of spinel ferrites. Band gap energy of material is 3.62 eV that imply semiconducting nature. Humidity sensor analysis is carried out three different environments in order to test the influence of medium stress factors on sensors parameters. Under these environments, Li–NiFe2O4 nanoparticles exhibit well sensing nature. Besides, the material displays high sensitivity at ideal environments and good stability in real environments. The results also show interesting characteristics of the maturing and aging process of humidity sensors.

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We thank De Ming Zhu for assistance with XPS analysis.

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  1. Department of Physics, Kongunadu Arts and Science College, Coimbatore, 641 029, India

    V. Manikandan

  2. Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Str. Dimitrie Mangeron, Nr. 27, 700050, Iasi, Romania

    Iulian Petrila

  3. Department of Physics, Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, 641 013, India

    S. Vigneselvan

  4. Center of Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, 3122, Australia

    Raghu Dharmavarapu & Saulius Juodkazis

  5. Centre for Automotive Energy Materials, International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600 113, India

    S. Kavita

  6. Department of Physics, Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore, 641 020, India

    J. Chandrasekaran

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Manikandan, V., Petrila, I., Vigneselvan, S. et al. Efficient humidity-sensitive electrical response of annealed lithium substituted nickel ferrite (Li–NiFe2O4) nanoparticles under ideal, real and corrosive environments. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 29, 18660–18667 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-018-9987-y

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