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K-band microwave absorption analysis of sol–gel synthesized cobalt-substituted zinc spinel ferrites

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Cobalt-substituted zinc spinel ferrites having chemical composition Zn1−xCoxFe2O4 with stoichiometric proportion ‘x’ equals 0.00, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, and 1.00 have been synthesized by sol–gel citrate route sintered at 1000 °C for 6 h. All the fabricated specimens have been characterized by using X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and vector network analyzer. The XRD patterns ensured the existence of a cubic spinel crystal structure having single phase of space group Fd-3m. Decline in crystallite size (Dc) from 48.016 to 45.314 nm with an increase in cobalt content displayed the nanocrystalline nature of the synthesized specimens. The values of lattice constant (\({a}_{\mathrm{avg}}, {a}_{\mathrm{px}}, {a}_{\mathrm{true}},\; \mathrm{and}\; {a}_{\mathrm{th}}\)) obtained from four different approaches are perfectly coordinating with each other. The complex electromagnetic parameters (\({\varepsilon }_{r}\;{\mathrm{ and }\;\mu }_{r}\)) measured by VNA are found to be increasing with Co2+ doping in K-band (18–26.5 GHz) frequency range. The reflection loss study revealed that all the synthesized compositions have yielded more than 90% absorption intensity in the studied frequency band due to higher magnetic and dielectric losses of the synthesized ferrites thereby making them a potential candidate for the implementation of microwave absorbers at higher frequencies.

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Kaur, M., Kaur, P. & Bahel, S. K-band microwave absorption analysis of sol–gel synthesized cobalt-substituted zinc spinel ferrites. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 33, 12182–12200 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-08178-w

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