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JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
Volume 61, Issue 4, Pages 568-574Publisher
KOREAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.3938/jkps.61.568
Keywords
Nanoferrites; Cu-Al ferrite; Cation distribution; Magnetic properties
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- BK21 Frontier Physics Research Division, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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Nanocrystalline CuFe2-x Al (x) O-4 (0.0 a parts per thousand currency sign x a parts per thousand currency sign 1.0) was synthesized by using the sol-gel method and its structural and magnetic properties were investigated. The crystallite size was observed to decrease from 20 to 6 nm with increasing Al content. The lattice parameters were observed to decrease with increasing Al content. The cation distribution from X-ray intensity calculations revealed that Cu2+ preferably occupied octahedral [B] sites. Al3+ ions replaced the Fe3+ ions in the tetrahedral (A) and the octahedral [B] sites. As a result the Fe3+ concentration at (A) and [B] sites decreases, leading to a suppression of the long range magnetic ordering. Magnetic hysteresis loops were measured at room temperature with a maximum applied magnetic field of a parts per thousand 1 T. As the Al3+ content increases, the measured magnetic hysteresis curves become more and more narrow, and the saturation magnetization and the remanent magnetization both decrease. The reduction of magnetization with increasing of aluminum content is caused by non-magnetic Al3+ ions and weakened interaction between sublattices. The reduction in the magnetization compared to the bulk may originate from the smallness of particles. This is also accompanied by a coercive field reduction.
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