Research Article

Structural and Ferroic Properties of La, Nd, and Dy Doped BiFeO3 Ceramics

Table 3

Raman modes (cm−1) for Bi0.8RE0.2FeO3 (RE = La, Nd, and Dy) samples and the bulk BiFeO3 (Kothari et al. [20]).

Raman modes (cm−1)BFO bulk [20]BLFOBNFOBDFO

-1135.15135.95139.06142.33
-2167.08174.52176.88
-3218.11
-4430.95434.14
-1 71.3967.4468.24
-2 98.3697.91
-3 255.38234.32
-4 283.0273.93298.01278.77
-5 321.47326.52
-6 351.55373.35386.31
-7 467.60475.53488.53475.47
-8 526.22527.78531.89
-9 598.84627.47619.53585.45