Magnetocapacitance

About: Magnetocapacitance is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 497 publications have been published within this topic receiving 23846 citations.

Temperature dependence of magnetization, anisotropy and hyperfine fields of NiFe 2−x Yb x O 4 (x = 0, 0.05, 0.075)

Abstract: Nickel ferrite (NiFe 2 O 4 ), an inverse spinel in which the tetrahedral (A) sites are occupied by Fe3+ ions and the octahedral (B) sites are occupied by Fe3+ and Ni2+ ions, can be represented as Fe A 3+ Ni B 2+ Fe B 3+ O 4 2− [1-3]. The cation distribution and the resulting magnetic properties are reported to be quite interesting in rare-earth doped nickel ferrite due to the absence of center of symmetry [2, 3]. Kamala Bharathi et al. have reported that, substitution of Fe3+ by Dy3+ ion in NiFe 2 O 4 causes development of magnetocapacitance, leads to ferroelectricity and affects several other properties [3]. These materials play an important role in applications (spintronic memory cell, high frequency devices etc) [4]. There are no reports on thermal behavior of magnetic anisotropy in the rare earth substituted Ni ferrites. Understanding these behaviors will be useful in novel applications such as heat-assisted magnetic recording [4, 5]. In the present work, the temperature dependence of magnetic anisotropy and hyperfine fields of NiFe 2−x Yb x O 4 (x = 0, 0.05, 0.075) are reported. All the samples were prepared by solid state reaction. The materials are found to have formed in inverse spinel structure, from the powder XRD patterns. Rietveld refinement carried out on the XRD patterns revealed that Yb3+ ions occupy the B site and the lattice is found to be expanded with the introduction of Yb3+. The lattice constants are 8.3415(1) A (reported value is 8.34 A [1]), 8.3436(0) A and 8.3463(5) A for x = 0, 0.05 and 0.075 compounds respectively. Magnetization was measured at 5 K, 100 K, 200 K, and 300 K and the magnetization was observed to decrease with x. This is attributed to substitution of Fe3+ by Yb3+ in the B-site. The saturation magnetization values, at all the measured temperatures obtained through Honda plots are given in Table 1. The moments calculated using Hund's rule (assuming that Yb3+ and Fe3+ moments are parallel) are 2.82 μ B /f.u., 2.76 μ B /f.u. and 2.71 μ B /f.u. for x = 0, 0.05 and 0.075 compounds respectively. The experimental values are less in comparison with the calculated moments. In NiFe 2 O 4 , this difference is in accordance with the reported literature [1-3]. At each temperature, M-H data were fitted to the law of approach to saturation (LAS) [1, 6] and K1(T), the first order magnetocrystalline anisotropy constant at a temperature T, was obtained from LAS. At any given temperature, the observed increase in K1 of x = 0.05 and 0.075 compared with x = 0, is explained on the basis of single-ion model i.e. localized divalent ions in the octahedral site. The temperature dependence of K1 of cubic systems was investigated by plotting ln K1(T) vs ln M(T). The slopes of the straight line obtained are 7.5, 12.5 and 11.44 for x = 0, 0.05 and 0.075 respectively. This can be compared with the value of 10 proposed for magnetic anisotropy in cubic systems [1, 6]. The deviation of the exponent is explained on the extent of localization of the divalent ion.

Magnetodielectric properties of nano-crystalline BaZr0.15Ti0.85O3/La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 thin film heterostructures

Abstract: The paper discuses synthesis of La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 and BaZr0.15Ti0.85O3 thin film heterostructures using modified Pechini method (citrate gel) and spin coating technique. The XRD spectra are determined for confirmation of the crystal structure and phase formation of thin film composites. The paper presents variation of real and imaginary parts of dielectric constant e′, e″ and tan δ as function of frequency between 100 Hz and 1 MHz and applied magnetic field up to 0.6 T. The paper, also discuses the effect of magnetic field on AC conductivity. The observed variation of magnetocapacitance and impedance spectra are analyzed in terms of a possible equivalent circuit model. The present analysis shows that the method of impedance spectra could be used to separate out the possible contributions to the magnetodielectric effect.