Spinel magnetic

Spinel ferrites, isostmctural with the mineral spinel [1302-67-6] MgAl204, combine interesting soft magnetic properties with a relatively high electrical resistivity. The latter permits low eddy current losses in a-c appHcations, and based on this feature spinel ferrites have largely replaced the iron-based core materials in the r-f range. The main representatives are MnZn-ferrites (frequencies up to about 1 MH2) and NiZn-ferrites (frequencies 1 MHz). 

The soft magnetic spinel ferrites, by far the most important cubic ferrites, were first introduced by Philips under the trade name Ferroxcube (14) and are now widely commercially available under various trade names. The world market for soft magnetic ferrites amounts to about one biUion dollars (1991), about 350 million dollars of which is in the United States. 

The sensitive dependence of the electrical and magnetic properties of spinel-type compounds on composition, temperature, and detailed cation arrangement has proved a powerful incentive for the extensive study of these compounds in connection with the solid-state electronics industry. Perhaps the best-known examples are the ferrites, including the extraordinary compound magnetite Fc304 (p. 1080) which has an inverse spinel structure (Fe )t[Fe Fe ]o04. 

The low-temperature Mossbauer spectra of the spinel type oxides, NiCr204 [14,18] (Fig. 7.6b) and NiFe204 [3, 18], have been found to exhibit combined magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole interaction (Fig. 7.7). For the evaluation of these spectra, the authors have assumed a small quadrupolar perturbation and a large magnetic interaction, as depicted in Fig. 7.3 and represented by the Hamiltonian [3]... 

The magnirnde and sign of the magnetic hyperfine field in the nickel spinel compounds NrFe204 (Fig. 7.8), NiCr204 (Fig. 7.9), NiFeo.3Cr1.7O4, NiRh204, and... 

An interesting study of oxidic spinel ferrites of the type CO cNi5/3 xFeSbi/304 was reported [21], where three different Mbssbauer-active probes Fe, Ni and Sb were employed on the same material. The results have been interpreted in terms of the cation distributions over spinel A- and B-lattice sites, magnetic moments and spin structure, and the magnitude of the supertransferred hyperfine... 

Huge h3q)erfine magnetic fields have been observed in spinel chromites Cuo,9Nio.iCr204 and Coo,9Nio.iCr204 arising from ions in compressed tetra-... 

Nearly no eddy current losses occur in electrically insulating magnetic materials. This is one of the reasons for the importance of oxidic materials, especially of spinels and garnets. Another reason is the large variability of the magnetic properties that can be achieved with spinels and garnets of different compositions. The tolerance of the spinel structure to substitution at the metal atom sites and the interplay between normal and inverse spinels allow the adaptation of the properties to given requirements. 

Vestal, C.R. and Zhang, Z.J. (2003) Synthesis and magnetic characterization of Mn and Co spinel ferrite—silica nanopartides with tunable magnetic core. Nano Letters, 3 (12), 1739-1743. 

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