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JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS
卷 541, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2021.168538
关键词
Magnetization; Surface magnetism; Rare earth doped fluorite; Ceria; EPR
资金
- Kazan Federal University [0671-2020-0051]
Room-temperature ferromagnetism found in powders of both undoped CaF2 and CaF2 doped with CeO2 suggests a key role of surface defects, as compared to bulk crystals exhibiting diamagnetic or paramagnetic behavior. The study may provide new insights into the phenomenon of room-temperature ferromagnetism in nonmagnetic nanoparticles.
Room-temperature ferromagnetism found last decades in nonmagnetic nanoparticles is a puzzle that is not solved yet. In this work we report about the observation of room-temperature magnetism in powders of CaF2 doped with CeO2 as well as in the undoped powder but containing small amount impurity. The studied powders were obtained by grinding of bulk crystals using a sapphire mortar with a pestle. Magnetization dependences on magnetic field for the studied powder samples resemble the dependences observed in nonmagnetic oxide nanoparticles like CeO2. The comparative study of bulk and powder fluorite samples unambiguously confirms the key role of surface defects in the observed features. XRD and TEM measurements show that powder samples have particles of different sizes from the micro down to the submicron scale. The undoped bulk fluorite as well as doped with 0.5at.% (two differently grown crystals), 2at.%, 10at.% of CeO2 revealed only diamagnetic or paramagnetic contribution to magnetization curve whereas the powders of the same samples have ferromagnetic-like contribution on M-H curve. This work may help to get new insight in room-temperature ferromagnetism phenomenon of nonmagnetic nanoparticles.
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