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Effects of Mn Doping on Structural and Magnetic Properties of Multiferroic BiFeO3 Nanograins Made by Sol-gel Method |
Journal of Magnetics, Volume 16, Number 1, 31 Mar 2011, Pages 19-22 |
A. T. Raghavender * (Nanomagnetism Lab, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University), Nguyen Hoa Hong (Nanomagnetism Lab, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) |
Abstract |
BiFeO3 is a multiferroic material that attracts attentions of many research groups due to its potential as being ferroelectric and ferromagnetic above room temperature. We have prepared both undoped- and Mn-doped BiFeO3 by sol-gel auto-ignition method. Doping of Mn has resulted in decreasing grain size from 60 to 32 nm. X-ray diffraction data show that the samples are pure and single-phase. Infrared measurements on BiFeO3 and Mn-doped BiFeO3 revealed intrinsic stretching vibrations of tetrahedral sites of Fe3+ -O and of octahedral Bi3+- O as well. On the other hand, as the Mn concentration increases, the magnetic moment of BiFeO3 increases. It gives some suggestions in manipulating structural and magnetic properties of BiFeO3 by doping Mn.
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Keywords: nanocrystalline; multiferroics; structural properties; magnetic properties |
DOI: 10.4283/JMAG.2011.16.1.019 |
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