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Mössbauer studies of microwave sintered NiFe2O4-BaFe12O19 composites

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In the present work polycrystalline composites consisting of soft and hard ferrimagnetic phases with compositional formula (NiFe2O4)100-x – (BaFe12O19)x (x = 0,20,40,50,60,80,100) have been synthesized by sol-gel method. Thus formed materials were calcined at 1000 °C for 2 h and sintered in a microwave furnace at 1200 °C for 30 min. These composites were characterised structurally by X-ray diffraction studies and morphological studies were done using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Analysis of XRD data confirmed hexagonal structure with P63/mmc space group for Barium hexaferrite (BFO) and cubic structure with Fd-3 m (227) space group for Nickel ferrite (NFO). Mössbauer spectroscopy measurements were also done for the selected samples and the data is analysed to extract the hyperfine parameters of both the soft magnetic and hard magnetic phases and the results are used to corroborate the observed magnetic properties.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Dr. A. Srinivas, Scientist F, DMRL, Hyderabad for suggestions, UGC-NRC, Hyderabad Central University for XRD facilities, UGC-DAE CSR, Indore, for Mössbauer studies and Director, CSIR-IICT for VSM studies. Dr. G. Lalitha would like to thank SERB for sanctioning TARE project with code TAR/2018/000366.

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    K. Ganesh & G. Lalitha

  2. Center for Materials Electronics Technology (C-MET), Cherlapally, HCL (PO), Hyderabad, 500051, India

    Y. Purushotham

  3. UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, University Campus, Khandwa Road, Indore, 452001, India

    V. Raghavendra Reddy

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Ganesh, K., Purushotham, Y., Raghavendra Reddy, V. et al. Mössbauer studies of microwave sintered NiFe2O4-BaFe12O19 composites. Hyperfine Interact 242, 22 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-021-01755-1

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