期刊
PHYSICA B-CONDENSED MATTER
卷 406, 期 10, 页码 1989-1994出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physb.2011.02.072
关键词
Zinc ferrite; Nanocrystalline; Ball milling; Mossbauer; X-ray diffraction; VSM
资金
- Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development
Nanocrystalline zinc ferrite (ZnFe2O4) is synthesized by high-energy ball-milling after 12 h from a powders mixture of zinc oxide (ZnO) and hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) with balls to powders mass ratio of 20:1. X-ray diffraction, vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM), the Mossbauer spectrometry and photoluminescence (PL) are used to characterize the samples. Rietveld analysis and VSM measurements show that the powder has an average crystallites size of 10 nm and a ferrimagnetic behavior with a saturation magnetization of 30 emu/g. After annealing at 700 degrees C, the lattice parameter reduces from 8.448 to 8.427 A and the sample transforms into a superparamagnetic behavior, which was confirmed as well by the room temperature Mossbauer spectrometry. Different mechanisms to explain the obtained results and the correlation between magnetism and structure are discussed. Finally, the broadband visible emission band is observed in the entire PL spectrum and the estimated energy band gap is about 2.13 eV. (C) 2011 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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