Mg1-xZnxFe2O4 nanoparticles: Interplay between cation distribution and magnetic properties

Correlation between cationic distribution, magnetic properties of Mg1-xZnxFe2O4 (0.0 ≤ x ≤ 1.0) ferrite is demonstrated, hardly shown in literature. X-ray diffraction (XRD) confirms the formation of cubic spinel nano ferrites with grain diameter between 40.8 to 55.4 nm. Energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) confirms close agreement of Mg/Fe, Zn/Fe molar ratio, presence of all elements (Mg, Zn, Fe, O), formation of estimated ferrite composition. Zn addition (for Mg) shows: i) linear increase of lattice parameter aexp, accounted for replacement of an ion with higher ionic radius (Zn > Mg); ii) presence of higher population of Fe3+ ions on B site, and unusual occurrence of Zn, Mg on A and B site leads to non-equilibrium cation distribution where we observe inverse to mixed structure, and is in contrast to reported literature where inverse to normal transition is reported; iii) effect on A-A, A-B, B-B exchange interactions, affecting coercivity Hc, Ms. A new empirical relation is also obtained showing linear r...

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