The lattice parameter and cell volume are in resemblance trend with the variation of the dopant concentration. The similar trend is observed for the crystallite and particle size. The porosity and sintered density, however, vary in an opposite way with a variation of the dopant concentration. The same variation is found for the drift mobility and DC resistivity.
Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices (2019) 310e318 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jsamd Original Article Structural, electrical and magnetic properties of Mg-Zr co-substituted Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 K Jalaiah a, b, *, K Chandra Mouli c, K Vijaya Babu d, R.V Krishnaiah e a Chebrolu Engineering College, Chebrolu, Guntur, 522212, India Department of Physics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 530003, India c Department of Engineering, Physics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 530003, India d Advanced Analytical Laboratory, Andhra University, 530003, India e Institute of Aeronautical Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, 500043, India b a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Received October 2018 Received in revised form 15 December 2018 Accepted 16 December 2018 Available online 23 December 2018 Zr and Mg co-substituted Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 ferrites have been synthesized by the sol-gel auto-combustion method The X-ray diffraction patterns evidenced the single phase cubic spinel structure The lattice parameter and cell volume are in resemblance trend with the variation of the dopant concentration The similar trend is observed for the crystallite and particle size The porosity and sintered density, however, vary in an opposite way with a variation of the dopant concentration The same variation is found for the drift mobility and DC resistivity The Arrhenius graphs of DC resistivity exhibit the semiconductor nature, for which the activation energy decreased with increasing the dopant concentration Moreover, as the dopant contents increased, the saturation magnetization, net magnetic moment and permeability are reduced, while the coercivity is reinforced These findings can be correlated with the variation of the porosity and grain size © 2018 The Authors Publishing services by Elsevier B.V on behalf of Vietnam National University, Hanoi This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Keywords: Ferrites XRD TEM SEM Permeability Saturation magnetization Anisotropy constant Introduction In early days iron based magnetic alloys are used in various applications However, their low resistivity made these materials inefficient at high frequencies, which encouraged the eddy current through them This wasted energy is created a serious problem that generated the heat in the circuit Hence, iron based magnetic materials are not favorable in high frequency applications Ferrite materials, in opposite, possess high resistivity and dielectric performances and not conduct the electric current readily The advantage of ferrites over magnetic alloys is that they formed a different combination of ferrites with transition metals because the transition metals exhibit magnetic as well as semiconductor properties The porosity is an insignificant factor for ferrites so that the ferrites have been investigated for several years based on this issue In order to get the high resistivity of ferrites researchers * Corresponding author Chebrolu Engineering College, Chebrolu, Guntur, 522212, India E-mail address: kjalu4u@gmail.com (K Jalaiah) Peer review under responsibility of Vietnam National University, Hanoi choose different combination here we also choose a new combination with transition metals to get the high resistivity of ferrite material [1,2] Spinal ferrites are a class of magnetic oxides with the general formula of AB2O4 They are categorized as soft and hard ferrites according to their magnetic performance Soft ferrites are easily demagnetized without significant energy need, i.e only a small energy amount is wasted in the form of eddy currents to demagnetize the soft magnetic materials In case of hard ferrites, a significantly higher energy is needed to demagnetize This means that soft magnetic materials possess higher electrical resistivity, thus, they are used in inductors and transformers The magnetic oxides are made from the blend of iron, nickel, zinc, manganese oxides By using these oxides, different combinations of soft ferrites like Manganese-Zinc and Nickel-Zinc have been prepared For inductor cores, the magnetic permeability is the chief parameter [3,4] In order to improve the core performance at high frequency the grain size, which can be controled by the ferrite preparation technique, plays an important role The solid state ceramic technique is a general ferrite fabricated technique, in which the constituent oxides react at higher temperatures In this case, an unusual grain growth usually occurs due to the non stoichiometry https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsamd.2018.12.004 2468-2179/© 2018 The Authors Publishing services by Elsevier B.V on behalf of Vietnam National University, Hanoi This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) K Jalaiah et al / Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices (2019) 310e318 and inhomogeneity of ferrite materials [5] To control this unusual grain growth, we adopted the solution method known as the solgel autocombustion method in which the constituent oxides react at lower temperatures So, the precursor material becomes stoichiometry and homogeneity with controlled grain size In the present study, the correlation between structural, electrical and magnetic properties of Mg-Zr co-substituted Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 are discussed in connection with the dopant concentration mismatches between the substitute ions and host ions ionic radius The Fe3ỵ (0.67 ) ions radius is small when compared with Zr (0.80 Å) and Mg (0.72 Å) ionic radii Hence the substitution of Zr and Mg in place of the Fe3ỵions unit cell will bulge promptly and as a result the lattice constant increases with increasing dopant concentration [8] The X-ray density is estimated from the following equation Dx ¼ Experimental The Zr and Mg co-substituted Ni0.5Zn0.5ZrxMgxFe2-2xO4 have been prepared by sol-gel auto combustion method, x values vary from the 0.08 to 0.4 in steps of 0.08 with% The starting materials of all metal nitrates with AR grade Nickel nitrate (Ni(NO3)2.6H2O), zinc nitrate (Zn (NO3)2.6H2O), Magnesium nitrate (Mg(NO3)2.6H2O), Zirconyle nitrate (ZrO (NO3)2), ferric citrate (Fe C6H8O7.H2O) and citric acid (C6H8O7.H2O) are used for synthesis of Ni0.5Zn0.5ZrxMgxFe2-2xO4 (x ¼ 0.08, 0.16, 0.24, 0.32, 0.4) The stoichiometric weights of metal nitrates dissolved in deionized water and the citric acid added to the solution as per the oxygen ions present in chemical formula, later 50 ml ethylene glycol added to the solution [6] The ammonia solution added drop wise to adjust the PH value of for the final solution Then the neutralizing solution heated to 600oCe700 C for 8e10 h with continuous stirring After 8e10 h the solution turned into a viscous on the formation of gel, then the temperature of a gel rise to 100 C drying, finally a powder form of samples obtained [7] The obtained powders processed for simple experimental needs Structural studies Fig shows the XRD patterns of Mg and Zr co-substituted Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 Here the XRD patterns provide the evidence for single phase cubic spinel and no extra peaks are observed throughout while the doping concentration is increased The lattice constant is calculated from XRD peaks, using the following equation pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi a ẳ d h2 ỵ k2 ỵ l2 where d is the space between the lattice planes The lattice constant and cell volumes are shown in Fig 2a with a variation of dopant concentration The increase in the lattice constant has resulted in 8M Na a3 where M is the molar mass, Na is the Avogadro number and “a” is the lattice constant The X-ray density increases with increasing dopant concentration from x ¼ 0.08 to x ¼ 0.32, later it is slightly decreased to x ¼ 0.4 However, overall X-ray density increases with increasing dopant concentration The increase in X-ray density may be due to the lattice constant which is dominated by the molar mass as shown in the above equation because the increase in the lattice constant decreases the X-ray density The ratio between the sintered density and X-ray density gives the porosity of prepared samples The porosity of prepared samples is estimated from the following equation p¼1À ds dx where “ds” and “dx” are sintered and x-ray densities respectively The porosity and sintered density are shown in Fig 2b with a variation of dopant concentration From Fig 2b it is clear that both the parameters exhibit opposite trend with a variation of dopant concentration The sintered density is decreased as a result of lagging the sintering rate of material The sintering rate of material is lagging due to the volatilization of zinc at higher temperature Since the melting point of zinc is less than those of other constituent ions, the material becomes non stoichiometry [9] To minimize the non stoichiometry property of the material, the excess of ferric oxide is changed as ferrous oxide, i.e., Fe3ỵ ions are changed as Fe2ỵions in the sintering process The presence of Fe2ỵions in the material lags the sintering rate of material, hence sintered density is decreased [10] The decrease in the sintered density results in the development of pores in the material Surface morphology The crystallite size is estimated from the following equation D¼ Fig X-ray diffraction patterns of Ni0.5 Zn0.5ZrxMgxFe2-2xO4 samples with x ¼ 0.08, 0.16, 0.24, 0.32, and 0.4 311 0:94*l b cos q where l is the wavelength of Cu radiation and b is the full width half maximum of (3 1) peak The FWMH is decreased with increasing substituting ionic radii so that the decrease in the FWHM increases the crystallite size since crystallite size and FWHM are inversely related in the above equation Fig 2c shows the crystallite size and particle size with a variation of dopant concentration The TEM pictures are shown in Fig The particle size is measured from TEM pictures by using image-j software The particle size increased with increasing dopant concentration as a result of the agglomeration nature of crystallites [11] From Fig 2c we conclude that both the crystallite size and the particle size are in comparable nano size The SEM micrographs of prepared samples are shown in Fig The grain size is measured from SEM micrographs by using the image-j software The grain size decreased with increasing dopant concentration The decrease in grain size is due to the development of pores in the material during the sintering of material 312 K Jalaiah et al / Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices (2019) 310e318 Fig (a) variation of lattice parameter and cell volume with dopant concentration (b) variations of sintered density and porosity with dopant concentration (c) the variation of particle size and Crystallite size with dopant concentration DC resistivity The ferrites exhibit the semiconducting nature since ferrites are composed of transition elements and all transition elements show the semiconducting nature Fig shows composition variation of DC resistivity and drift mobility of prepared ferrite samples The DC resistivity of ferrite samples decreased with increasing doping concentration The decrease in DC resistivity because of the increased electronic conduction between the paramagnetic region (Fe2ỵions) to ferromagnetic (Fe3ỵions) region [12] That is the electronic exchange has occurred in ferrites from Fe2ỵ (n-type) to Fe3ỵ (p-type) In Fig the drift mobility varies opposite to DC resistivity with increasing doping concentration, since the decrease in DC resistivity increases the mobility of electrons The Arrhenius plots drawn between DC resistivity and inverse temperature in the range of 300 K and 620 K show that all plots are less curved So these plots reveal the semiconducting nature of prepared samples The Arrhenius plots for the present study are shown in Fig The semi conductivity of ferrite samples is described by the following equation s ¼ so exp DE kB T where so is the constant, DE is the activation energy, KB is the Boltzmann constant and T is the absolute temperature The graph between s and 1/T gives more or less a curved line The DE equals 0.1eV for stoichiometry composition and DE reaches 0.5eV for low conductivity ferrites [13] For the present study the Activation energy DE decreased from 0.17eV to 0.11eV i.e the activation energy, decreased with increasing dopant concentration and it is shown in Fig The decrease in activation energy is due to increase of jumping frequency of electrons from the paramagnetic region (Fe2ỵ) to the ferromagnetic region (Fe3ỵ) [14] Magnetic properties The magnetic properties of Mg and Zr substituted Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4ferrites are calculated by using the M-H loops shown in Fig All the M-H loops are with less loss of magnetic energy and the M-H loop data is collected at room temperature The saturation magnetization and the corresponding net magnetic moment are estimated from M-H loops Both the saturation magnetization and the corresponding net magnetic moment are in decreasing trend with increasing dopant concentration as shown in Fig 9a The decrease in saturation magnetization is due to the decrease of Fe3ỵ ions in general formula with the substitution of Mg and Zr ions in place of Fe3ỵions The presence of Fe3ỵions in the material needs a much more ux to orient in the applied eld direction Since Fe3ỵions behave like ferromagnetic ions the Fe3ỵions need higher ux density to orient in the field direction [15] The K Jalaiah et al / Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices (2019) 310e318 313 Fig Transmission electron micrographs of Ni0.5Zn0.5ZrxMgxFe2-2xO4 along with selected area Electron diffraction patterned of samples decreased Fe3ỵions in material need lesser ux density to orient in the field direction Hence the saturation magnetization is decreased with increasing dopant concentration Father the net magnetic moment of the material is calculated using the following equation M ¼ MA À MB here MA and MB are the magnetic moments of A-site and B-site respectively From the above equation the resultant magnetic 314 K Jalaiah et al / Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices (2019) 310e318 Fig Schematic SEM photo graphs of Zr and Mg Co substituted Ni0.5Zn0.5ZrxMgxFe2-2xO4 Fig Compositional variation of D.C resistivity and Drift mobility Fig Variation of log r with inverse temperature K Jalaiah et al / Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices (2019) 310e318 315 moment of material is the difference between the B-site magnetic moment and A-site magnetic moment The increase in A-site magnetic moment decreases the resultant material magnetic moment The substituted Mg and Zr in place of Fe3ỵions, occupy the A-site and B-sites for their comfortable fit in lattice sites While Zr enters A-site, it replaces the Fe3ỵions from A-site to B-site To give place for Fe3ỵions in B-site the Ni2ỵions are converted as Ni3ỵions by releasing an electron And by taking the electron from Ni ion, Fe3ỵion is changed as Fe2ỵion [16,17] Moreover the A-site spin magnetic moment is always opposite to the B-site spins magnetic moment, hence the net magnetic moment is decreased with increasing dopant concentration The Fe3ỵions from A-site will be arranged anti parallel in B-site upto certain concentration, later Fe3ỵions from A-site will be arranged on B-site with canting position This gives an angle between the Aesite Fe3ỵions and B-siteFe3ỵions called Y-K angle [18] The Y-K angle is calculated by using the following equation Fig Variation of activation energy with dopant concentration nB ẳ ỵ xịcosaYK 51 À xÞ Fig Magnetization versus magnetic field (M-H) curves of Zr and Mg substituted Ni0.5Zn0.5ZrxMgxFe2-2xO4 at room temperature 316 K Jalaiah et al / Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices (2019) 310e318 Fig Variation of net magnetic moment and saturation magnetization (a), Y-K angles (b), coercive field and porosity (c), and permeability and grain size (d) with dopant concentration The variation of Y-K angles with dopant concentration is shown in Fig 9b From Fig 9b it is clear that Y-K angles increased with increasing dopant concentration The increase in the Y-K angles suggests the increase of AeB interaction [19] The coercive field is a field where the magnetization becomes zero in reverse order The composition variation of Coercive field and porosity is shown in Fig 9c From Fig 9c it is concluded that the increase in the porosity increases the coercive field According to J Smith and H.P.J Wijn the increase in the porosity of the material will affect the reverse magnetization of material [20] On removing the applied magnetic field magnetic dipoles will not come to initial orientation since the magnetic dipoles lag by field (i.e the magnetic dipoles suffer by residual flux) This lagging of field is affected by the porosity of samples [21] Hence an increase in porosity increases the coercive filed Magnetic permeability Permeability is the property of a magnetic material which measures its ability to support the formation of magnetic fields within itself The extent of the magnetization of a material denotes the response to an applied magnetic field The permeability of the material is estimated from the following equation m¼ Fig 10 Variation of permeability with frequency L L0 Fig 11 Variation of permeability and anisotropy constant with dopant concentration K Jalaiah et al / Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices (2019) 310e318 where L is the measured inductance of the torroids and Lo is calculated as follows OD t  10À9 Henry Lo ¼ 4:606N log ID Fig 9d shows the variation of the initial permeability and grain size with the dopant concentration From Fig 9d it is clear that the permeability decreases with increasing dopant concentration, since the permeability and the grain size are related as shown in the following equation K ¼ cd2 here K is the permeability, c is the dimension less constant and d is the grain size Hence permeability is directly proportional to the square of the grain size The materials composed with grains include the atomic dipoles or spin dipoles [22] The existed atomic dipoles or spin dipoles in grains are oriented randomly By the application of external fields, the atomic dipoles or spin dipoles in grains align with the field direction This is related to the induced magnetic flux in the magnetic material, which continues to increase up to a certain frequency In this case, a resonance peak will appear where the frequency of the applied field equals the spin dipoles or atomic dipoles It means that the maximum magnetic flux is induced in the material at the resonance frequency Later atomic dipoles will not follow the applied field According to literature survey the resonance peak appearance connects to: (i) inhomogeneous material, (ii) crystalline magnetic anisotropy, (iii) the combination of the magnetic anisotropy and the ferromagnetic exchange fields, (iv) the domain walls and (v) the electromagnetic body resonance The frequency variation of permeability in the present study is shown in Fig 10 From the 317 Fig 10 it is clear that all samples exhibit the resonance peak around the 12 MHz to 13 MHz The resonance effects occur in all ferrous and paramagnets In particular, it is not peculiar to ferrites in its simple form Generally, it has been considered that the resonance in ferrites accounts for a large part of the magnetic dispersion of ferrites The permeability arises from the rotation of magnetic dipoles rather than from a domain wall displacement process The domain wall displacement does not account for magnetic dispersion at higher frequency [23] More complex type resonances are considered in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic materials, the sample shape anisotropy is taken into account in this case Sometimes there may be two or more resonance frequencies possible in an accessible range of frequency In this case, domain wall effects will be considered The moving wall sets up a magnetic double layer in the wall, and as a result the additional energy acquires its static value Another resonance frequency appears due to body-resonance which accounts for the high permeability and high permittivity [24] Both are comparable at body resonance frequency and as a result, the permeability and permittivity of a material may give too small values The permeability and anisotropy constant are shown in Fig 11 with dopant concentration The permeability and anisotropy constant are related as shown in following expression mi ∞ M 2s D K From the above relation, the initial permeability is directly proportional to the square of saturation magnetization, and inversely proportional to anisotropy constant The permeability strongly depends on the homogeneity of the material That means, permeability depends on the grain size, intra and intergranular porosity of material If they are not explained well, then the Table: The structural data of Zr and Mg substituted Ni0.5Zn0.5ZrxMgxFe2-2xO4 Dopant concentration Lattice parameter(Å) Crystallite size (nm) X-ray density g/cm3 Porosity (%) Sintered density g/cm3 Grain size (mm) Particle size (nm) 0.08 0.16 0.24 0.32 0.4 8.2997 8.2996 8.3072 8.3367 8.3908 5.3857 5.3112 5.1105 5.5166 5.5663 5.5237 5.6840 5.7482 5.7665 5.733 10.99 14.34 16.16 17.31 19.12 4.9166 4.8685 4.8191 4.7682 4.6370 2.2286 2.1454 2.0556 1.9542 1.8775 25.1005 27.7178 29.6136 32.3956 37.3752 Table: The DC resistivity data of Zr and Mg substituted Ni0.5Zn0.5ZrxMgxFe2-2xO4 Dopant concentration DC resistivity(r) U-cm Drift mobility(h)  10À36 Activation energy (DE) eV 0.08 0.16 0.24 0.32 0.4 1.92775E6 889033 430824 243293 89791 1.5834 1.7539 2.9249 4.62057 6.1224 0.1765 0.1673 0.1509 0.1411 0.1172 Table: The magnetic properties of Zr and Mg substituted Ni0.5Zn0.5ZrxMgxFe2-2xO4 Dopant concentration Net Magnetic momenthB Saturation magnetization emu/gm Coercive field (Hc)Oe Anisotropy constant(K) Y-K angles (⁰) Permeability 0.08 0.16 0.24 0.32 0.4 5.8800 5.6074 4.8321 3.9987 3.2924 65.4921 60.5877 51.4706 42.3480 34.7691 11.4795 12.8929 30.7264 43.6102 44.2298 80.1051 105.62 117.13 134.71 200.68 35.3507 42.7818 48.4878 54.1299 58.5468 114 84 52 33 25 318 K Jalaiah et al / Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices (2019) 310e318 permeability mechanism must be governed by some other mechanism of magnetic anisotropy and magnetostriction [25] There are three types of magnetic anisotropy (1) crystal structure, (2) grain shape and (3) applied stress or residual stresses The crystal structure anisotropy is independent of grain size and shape and it can be easily observed by measuring the magnetic curves in different crystal directions The interaction of the spin magnetic moment with the crystal lattice gives easy and hard directions The magnetized body produces the poles or charge distribution at the surfaces As a result, the magnetized body itself acts as another source of the magnetic field called a demagnetizing field This demagnetizing field acts opposite to the magnetizing field, and it happens by applying a magnetic field in the material hence the permeability decreases In short, decreasing the shape of magnetizing body effects the permeability In case of round shaped magnetized body, the anisotropy constant will be higher and for cube shape, the anisotropy constant will be low The permeability will be low for round shaped magnetize body, and for cube shape it will be higher From Fig 4, magnetized bodies other than the cube shape should be grown, so that the anisotropy constant will be high As a result, the permeability decreases with increasing dopant concentration The third one arises due to the spin-orbit coupling that produces strain along the crystallographic axis So, the magnetized body will change directions when magnetized [13] Conclusion The Zr and Mg co-substituted Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 ferrites have been prepared by sol-gel auto combustion method The investigated samples revealed the semiconducting nature, in which the activation energydecreased with increasing dopant concentration The XRD patterns confirm the single phase cubic spinel and no secondary phase was identified by this analysis The lattice constant, cell volume as well as the porosity of samples increased with increasing the dopant concentration The density of material, as a consequence, decreased by pores developed in the material The crystallite and particle sizes are comparable in the nano scale As the dopant content varies, the DC resistivity and drift mobility varied in the opposite way The saturation magnetization, net magnetic moments and permeability are reduced with increasing dopant concentration, while the coercive field and anisotropy constant are enhanced The Y-K angles increase with increasing dopant concentration Electrical and 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Microstructural and magnetic behavior of mixed Ni-Zn-Co and Ni-Zn-Mn ferrites, Ceram Int 40 (2014) 8729e8735 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2014.01.092 ... becomes stoichiometry and homogeneity with controlled grain size In the present study, the correlation between structural, electrical and magnetic properties of Mg-Zr co-substituted Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4. .. [19] K Jalaiah, K Vijaya Babu, K Chandra mouli, P.S.V Subba Rao, Effect on the structural, DC resistivity and magnetic properties of Zr and Cu co-SubstitutedNi0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4using sol-gel auto-combustion... Magnetic properties The magnetic properties of Mg and Zr substituted Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4ferrites are calculated by using the M-H loops shown in Fig All the M-H loops are with less loss of magnetic