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Mohamed I Farouk1, Mohamed Morsy2, Abdelfattah Darwish3
1College of Engineering, Deanship of Scientific Research, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU) Riyadh 11432 Saudi Arabia.
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Metal-oxide ceramics with perovskite-related structures offer tunable properties for sensing applications. The strontium iron vanadate ceramic system remains underexplored for humidity sensing despite theoretical interest in Sr2FeVO6-type compositions. This study presents sol-gel synthesis of a strontium iron vanadate ceramic at 900 °C and its characterization as an impedance-type humidity sensor. XRD revealed a multi-phase composition with a perovskite-related Ia3̄d superstructure (a = 10.040 Å, 20 superstructure reflections systematically absent in Pm3̄m) and Sr-vanadate phases. FTIR confirmed a hydrophilic metal-oxygen framework with BO6 octahedral vibrations characteristic of perovskite-related structures. SEM showed ∼1.6 µm grains with inter-particle porosity; DLS showed ∼460 nm agglomerates. The zeta potential was -15 mV, indicating surface hydroxylation. Impedance spectroscopy (50 Hz-5 MHz, 11-97% RH) demonstrated 621% per %RH sensitivity at 50 Hz with two clearly separated conduction regimes: localized hopping mechanisms dominating at low RH and long-range proton transport occurring through continuous water pathways at elevated RH. The dielectric permittivity increased to approximately 106-107 at low frequencies, accompanied by a more conduction-related loss behavior at higher humidity, while the AC conductivity rose by nearly four orders of magnitude. This work reports the humidity sensing properties of a sol-gel-derived strontium iron vanadate ceramic with perovskite-related contributions and provides mechanistic insight into two-stage conduction behavior.
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