BARC/PUB/2013/1048

 
 

Structural, dielectric and Mossbauer studies of sol-gel synthesized nano Ni-Cu-Zn ferrites

 
     
 
Author(s)

Hashim, M.; Alimuddin; Meena, S. S.; Kumar, S.; Shirsath, S. E.; Bhatt, P.; Kumar, R.
(SSPD)

Source

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2013. Vol. 1536: pp. 1075-1076

ABSTRACT

In this work, we report the structural, electrical and Mössbauer spectroscopic studies of Ni0.5Cu0.25Zn0.25Fe2-xInxO4; x = 0. 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 spinel ferrites, synthesized by using citrate-nitrate precursor auto combustion method. In order to  investigate the formation of the spinel phase, thermal analysis (DTA-TGA) was performed. The phase recognition, crystallinity and morphology of as prepared samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The crystal structure was found to be cubic spinel and the lattice constants increased linearly with increasing quantity of In3+ ions. Room temperature Mössbauer spectrum of x = 0 sample shows four sextets due to Fe3+ ions at octahedral and tetrahedral sites. The ac conductivity was studied as a function of frequency which revealed that the hopping of electrons between Fe3+ ↔ Fe2+ as well as the hole hopping between Ni3+ ↔ Ni2+ are responsible for conduction mechanism in the studied compound.

 
 
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