Effects of Non-Stoichiometry on Magnetic Properties and Microstructure of Ni₀.₃Zn₀.₇Fe₂ ±ₓO₄ and Mg₀.₅Zn₀.₅Fe₂ ±ₓO₄
Various non-stoichiometric compositions of Ni-Zn ferrites and Mg-Zn ferrites were investigated. The samples were prepared by the conventional sintering method while being subjected to an air annospheric condition. The measurement of magnetic properties such as magnetic permeability, magnetic loss...
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2003
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Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9575/1/FSAS_2003_33.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9575/ |
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Summary: | Various non-stoichiometric compositions of Ni-Zn ferrites and Mg-Zn ferrites were
investigated. The samples were prepared by the conventional sintering method while
being subjected to an air annospheric condition. The measurement of magnetic
properties such as magnetic permeability, magnetic loss, Curie temperature, magnetic
flux density and microstructure were performed to understand the magnetic properties of
samples prepared by systematic compositional changes. X-ray diffraction results indicate
that the samples are in good crystalline form. Curie temperature variation can be
explained on the basis of Neel's two sub-lattices model and could be due to distribution
of magnetic ions between two sub-lattices. The dependence of magnetic permeability
with temperature shows that the trends exhibited by all the samples are similar. With
increase in temperature, permeability increases gradually and then shows sudden drop at
the Curie point because the anisotropy constant decreases more rapidly than the
saturation magnetization. The dependence of permeability on iron oxide content obeys
globus model. The change of permeability in the cation-deficient region is caused by the positive contribution of the anisotropy constant to the total anisotropy during
conversion of Fe3+ ions to Fe2+ ions. However, for the anion-deficient region, the
variation in permeability is mainly accounted to be due to microstructural changes.
The loss factor and the quality factor were also calculated and this study has revealed
that the iron oxide concentration is a determining factor for high quality ferrites. Finally,
this study shows that high permeability values of Ni-Zn and Mg-Zn ferrites occur in the
cation-deficient region with x = 0.002-0.006 weight percent. |
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