Study on Structural and Magnetic Properties of Mn(1-X)ZnxFe2O4 Prepared by Solid-State Reaction Method

Abstract

Reagent graded raw materials were used as starting material to synthesize and get characterization of Manganesee-Zinc based spinel ferrite. Conventional solid-state reaction procedure was employed to produce specimens of Mn(1- x)ZnxFe2O4, where x = 0.1,0.2 and 0.3.. The following study of Mn-Zn ferrite is done by solid oxidising method by varying Zn composition from 0.1 weight% to 0.3 weight% at temperatures 1225 oC, 1250 oC, and 1275 oC.X-ray diffraction analysis was done to report phases evolved with corresponding temperature. Scanning electron microscopy with a Field-Emissin-SEM was employed to characterize microscopy images of ferrites samples. Bulk density, apparent porosity, crystallite size, average grain size, indexing were done. And regarding magnetic properties, B-H loop, saturation magnetization, coercivity, and residual magnetization were also done. It was observed that on increasing the composition of Zn and the temperature, the density increased. At the temperature 1275 oC highest density is achieved. The average grain size also increased gradually. The saturation magnetizatiion got improved. The residual magnetization value was good. The coercivity value decreased gradually on increasing both the composition of Zn and the temperature