Magnetism of sol-gel fabricated CoFe2O4∕SiO2 nanocomposites
2005; American Institute of Physics; Volume: 97; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1063/1.1929849
ISSN1520-8850
AutoresJana Vejpravová, V. Sechovský, J. Plocek, D. Nižňanský, A. Hutlová, Jean-Luc Rehspringer,
Tópico(s)Theoretical and Computational Physics
ResumoDetails of synthesis and characterization of sol-gel-produced CoFe2O4 nanoparticles embedded in the amorphous SiO2 matrix are presented together with results of an extended magnetization study of these materials. The particle size was found to increase from 6to15nm by varying the temperature of a subsequent annealing from 800to1100°C. All samples exhibited superparamagnetic behavior with values of the blocking temperature TB increasing with the particle size. At temperatures above TB the magnetization curves follow the expected Langevin scaling of M vs H∕T, which is consistent with the formation of the superparamagnetic state. For T<TB, the coercivity field Hc was found to be proportional to T and the frequency-dependent ac susceptibility was found to obey the Néel–Arrhenius law. Both observations are compatible with a model of noninteracting randomly oriented single-domain particles.
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