研究生: |
張淑閔 Sue-min Chang |
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論文名稱: |
溶膠-凝膠法製備之二氧化鋯薄膜其化學組成相依之微結構及電子結構之研究 The Chemical-composition-dependent Microstructures and Electronic Structures of Sol-gel-derived ZrO2 Films |
指導教授: |
董瑞安
Ruey-an Doong |
口試委員: | |
學位類別: |
博士 Doctor |
系所名稱: |
原子科學院 - 生醫工程與環境科學系 Department of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences |
論文出版年: | 2004 |
畢業學年度: | 93 |
語文別: | 英文 |
論文頁數: | 172 |
中文關鍵詞: | 二氧化鋯 、溶膠-凝膠 、薄膜 、結晶 、能隙 |
外文關鍵詞: | ZrO2, Sol-gel, Thin film, Crystalline property, Band gap |
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中文摘要
二氧化鋯及金屬參雜的二氧化鋯薄膜是具有高發展潛力性的材料,其特殊的物化性質使得此類材料廣泛地應用於各種領域中。二氧化鋯相關材料的物化性質及其應用效能主要取決於微結構及電子結構,而鍛燒處理已被證明對微結構及電子結構有重要的影響,可能原因與鍛燒改變了二氧化鋯的晶體缺陷及其相關的化學組成有關,然而,對於二氧化鋯系統性的定性及定量分析以闡明鍛燒條件對微結構及電子結構的影響機制卻尚未完整。因此,本研究主要目的在建立不同的鍛燒條件下二氧化鋯與金屬參雜的二氧化鋯的化學組成(包括O/Zr比例、Zr-O及Zr-OH的含量以及Zr物種變化)與微結構及電子結構的相關性,並藉由化學組成的變化解釋在不同鍛燒條件下二氧化鋯及金屬參雜的二氧化鋯微結構及電子結構的轉變機制。由於溶膠-凝膠法可簡單合宜地調控薄膜的型態及厚度,本研究將以溶膠-凝膠製備之二氧化鋯薄膜為樣本進行分析討論。
在微結構性質部分,二氧化鋯在空氣鍛燒下於80-950°C間進行非晶相®介穩態-正方晶®單斜晶的轉變,在氮氣下鍛燒則進行非晶相®介穩態-正方晶®單斜晶®介穩態-正方晶的轉變。在結晶過程中,薄膜表面及內部氫氧基的減少、低價數鋯物種的產生以及低於化學劑量比的O/Zr比例說明熱處理過程中去氫氧化的結果造成四價鋯的還原同時導入氧空缺(oxygen vacancies)而穩定了正方晶在低於其熱力學溫度下存在。在由正方晶轉為單斜晶的過程中,表面氫氧基的減少以及內部O/Zr比於晶相轉換完成時趨近於劑量比的現象說明了晶相轉變誘發於表面氫氧基提供氧離子填補氧空缺。比較性而言,介穩態-正方晶在空氣鍛燒下的穩定性低於在氮氣鍛燒下的狀態,藉由表面增加的氫氧基可說明空氣中的水及氧提供額外的氧來源以促使晶相轉變的發生。在450-600°C的氮氣及850-950°C的氧氣鍛燒下,介穩態-正方晶及單斜晶的晶粒隨溫度增加而減小,同時,二氧化鋯內部的O/Zr比也隨之減少,此現象意指氧空缺及低價鋯離子的離析幫助介穩態-正方晶及單斜晶在漸增的溫度下穩定性,單斜晶只穩定在O/Zr為劑量比的情形下,而最高及最低可穩定介穩態-正方晶的O/Zr分別為1.98 及1.63。
二氧化鋯的微結構及及化學組成主導了其能帶結構與能隙在不同鍛燒條件下的改變。溶膠-凝膠製備之二氧化鋯薄膜具有直接能帶、間接能帶以及能帶尾的結構,由於能帶尾的結構在O/Zr ³ 2 時測得,意指其形成主要在於不完美的結晶排列,另一方面,間接能帶在O/Zr < 2 時測得,意指其形成主要在於晶體缺陷。二氧化鋯非晶相及介穩態-正方晶的直接能隙介於5.90-6.12及532.-5.74 eV間,而單斜晶具有兩個直間能隙其分別介於5.87-6.00及4.89-5.08 eV 間,而非晶相、介穩態-正方晶及單斜晶的間接能隙則分別介於5.01-5.47、4.77-5.40及4.82-5.10 eV間。在空氣鍛燒下,直接能隙受量子效應影響其值隨晶粒增大而減小,而在氮氣鍛燒下,直接與間接能隙皆受晶體缺陷多寡的影響隨O/Zr比例減小而變小。
鍛燒對參雜七種過渡金屬離子(包括Cr3+, Mn2+, Fe3+, Co2+, Ni2+, Cu+, and Zn2+)的二氧化鋯微結構及電子結構的影響主要亦基於參雜金屬化學價態的改變。鍛燒的去氫氧化、去氧化及由表面氫氧基獲取氧離子的過程還原或氧化了所添加的過渡金屬離子。由於金屬離子價態轉變後與Zr4+離子半徑有不同相對大小的關係,因此轉變後的化學價態的決定了晶面的面距(d-spacings)、晶粒的大小、優選晶面(preferred orientation)及晶相的轉變,而由於不同的電子組態,轉變後的化學價態決定不純物在二氧化鋯能帶間的能階位置及二氧化鋯的能隙大小。過渡金屬在二氧化鋯基質中的氧化還原特性與其d軌域之電子組態有關,過渡金屬具有d5或d10電子組態者(如Mn2+, Fe3+, Cu+,及Zn2+)具有高穩定性能阻絕低溫鍛燒(~550 °C)時去氫氧化所引發的還原反應,然而高溫引發的去氧化可提供更高的還原力,因此這類過渡金屬在高溫鍛燒後(~950°C)將繼續還原成低價的物種。
總體言之,鍛燒引發的氧化及還原反應改變二氧化鋯及金屬參雜之二氧化鋯的化學組成,因而決定二氧化鋯及金屬參雜之二氧化鋯在不同鍛燒條件下微結構及電子結構的變化。
Abstract
Zirconium dioxide (ZrO2) and metal-doped ZrO2 films are promising materials for various advanced applications because of their special physicochemical properties. Microstructures and electronic structures play important roles in governing the physicochemical properties as well as the performance of ZrO2. Calcination conditions have shown to greatly influence the microstructures and electronic structures of ZrO2. Such influence is associated with changes in lattice defects and related chemical compositions. However, the qualitative and quantitative analyses of chemical compositions for elucidating the influence of calcination conditions on the microstructures and electronic structures of pure and doped ZrO2 is little addressed. In this study, the chemical compositions, including O/Zr ratios, contents of Zr-O and Zr-OH, contents and distribution of Zr species, of ZrO2 films with respect to their microstructures and electronic structures after calcination in air and in N2 were thoroughly examined. Moreover, the mechanisms of conversion of the microstructures and electronic structures in the pure ZrO2 and doped ZrO2 films under different calcination conditions are proposed based on the chemical compositions. A sol-gel method was used for preparing ZrO2 films in this study because it is simple and feasible to control the morphologies and thicknesses of films to satisfy the requirement of the samples for this study.
The phase transformation of the sol-gel-derived ZrO2 films was amorphous ® m-tetragonal ® monoclinic in air, while the evolution followed the sequence was amorphous ® m-tetragonal ® monoclinic ® m-tetragonal in N2 at 80-950 °C. During crystallization, the decrease in surface and lattice hydroxyl groups, generation of low-valent Zr species, and decrease in bulk O/Zr ratios to non-stoichiometry (< 2) prove that dehydroxylation reduced Zr4+ to low-valent states and introduced oxygen vacancies to stabilize tetragonal phase at temperatures than its thermodynamic temperatures (~ 1200 °C). When the m-tetragonal phase converted to the monoclinic phase, surface hydroxyl groups also decreased. Afterward, the bulk O/Zr ratios approach stoichiometry (~ 2) when the phase transformation was almost completed. These observations clearly show that the compensation of oxygen vacancies from surface hydroxyl groups, which play the role of O2- donor, triggers the m-tetragonal-to-monoclinic phase transformation. Comparatively, the m-tetragonal phase has lower stability against temperatures in air than in N2. The increase in the surface hydroxyl groups on the ZrO2 films calcined in air depicts that the dissociation of water and O2 on the surface accelerates the phase transformation. When ZrO2 films were calcined at 450-600 °C in N2 or 850-950 °C in air, crystallite sizes of the m-tetragonal phase and the monoclinic phase decreased with increasing temperatures. Meanwhile, bulk O/Zr ratios also decreased. These phenomena show that segregation of oxygen vacancies as well as reduced Zr species occurs to stabilize the m-tetragonal phase and the monoclinic phase. The minimal and maximal O/Zr ratios for the stabilization of the m-tetragonal phase were 1.63 and 1.98, respectively, while the monoclinic phase is only stable at stoichiometry.
The changed microstructures and O/Zr ratios dominate the band structures and band gaps of the sol-gel-derived ZrO2 films under different calcination conditions. The sol-gel-derived ZrO2 films contain direct band, indirect band and band tail structures. The band tails are detected when O/Zr ratios are almost equal to or larger than stoichiometry (³ 2), indicating that the tails are primarily resulted from imperfect crystalline structures. In addition, the indirect band structures are determined when the O/Zr ratios are smaller than stoichiometry (< 2), suggesting that the indirect band structures are produced by lattice defects. These three kinds of band gaps were determined experimentally. Direct band gaps of the amorphous and m-tetragonal ZrO2 films ranged 5.90-6.12 and 5.32-5.74 eV, respectively, the monoclinic ZrO2 exhibited two direct band gaps ranged 5.87-6.00 and 4.89-5.08 eV, and the indirect band gaps of the amorphous, m-tetragonal and monoclinic ZrO2 films ranged 5.01-5.47, 4.77-5.40 eV, and 4.82-5.10 eV, respectively. The direct band gaps of ZrO2 films decreased with increasing crystallite sizes in air because of a quantum effect. However, O/Zr ratios dominate the band gaps in N2. Both the direct and indirect band gaps decrease upon decreasing O/Zr ratios because of increased contents of the lattice defects.
Doping metal ions into ZrO2 lattice has been illustrated to improve the catalytic efficiency and ionic conductivity because introduced lattice defects modify the microstructures and electronic structures of ZrO2. The influence of calcination conditions on the ZrO2 films doped with seven transition metal ions, including Cr3+, Mn2+, Fe3+, Co2+, Ni2+, Cu2+, and Zn2+, are also examined based on the conversion of chemical states of dopants. Dehydroxylation, deoxygenation, and intake of oxygen ions from surface resulted in the reduction and oxidation of dopants in the bulk ZrO2 films. The depants, including Mn2+, Fe3+, Cu+, and Zn2+, having d5 or d10 configurations exhibited high stability against reduction induced by dehydroxylation. However, deoxygenation induced further reduction of these metal ions at high temperatures. The changes in chemical states of dopants dominate the d-spacings, crystallite sizes, preferred orientations and m-tetragonal-to-monoclinic phase transformation of the doped ZrO2 depending on their metallic or ionic radii relative to Zr4+. Also, the changed chemical states determine the impurity levels between intrinsic bands as well as band gaps of ZrO2, depending on their d-configurations.
In summary, the reduction and oxidation induced by calcination change the chemical compositions of ZrO2 and doped ZrO2 films. The changed chemical compositions govern the microstructures and electronic structures of ZrO2 under different calcination conditions.
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