Influence of rare earth ion substitutions on the structural, optical, transport, dielectric, and magnetic properties of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles

R. M. KERSHI; F. M. ALI; M. A. SAYED

doi:10.1007/s40145-018-0273-5

Journal of Advanced Ceramics 2018, 7(3): 218-228 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40145-018-0273-5

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Influence of rare earth ion substitutions on the structural, optical, transport, dielectric, and magnetic properties of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles

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), F. M. ALI^{^a^,^c}, M. A. SAYED^{^a^,^d}

^a Physics Department, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, P. O. Box 9004, Abha 61413, Saudi Arabia

^b Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Ibb University, Yemen

^c Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt

^d Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Assiut 71524, Egypt

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dielectric constant, electrical conductivity, superparamgnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs), rare earth (RE) ions, structure, optical and activation energies, saturation magnetization

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KERSHI RM, ALI FM, SAYED MA. Influence of rare earth ion substitutions on the structural, optical, transport, dielectric, and magnetic properties of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2018, 7(3): 218-228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40145-018-0273-5

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Superparamgnetic Fe₃O₄ and RE:Fe₃O₄ (RE = Dy, Nd, La) nanoparticles with an average crystallite size in the range of 15–24 nm, were synthesized by co-precipitation method. The samples were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM), UV–Vis spectroscopy, LCR bridge, and two-probe technique. X-ray diffraction patterns of all the investigated samples reveal the typical phase of magnetite structure, with a small contribution of orthoferrite (NdFeO₃) as a secondary phase in Nd:Fe₃O₄ sample. The saturation magnetization ( $M_{s}$ ) of the samples has values in the range from 41.8 to 52.3 emu/g, and decreases with RE ion doping depending on the ionic radius. Negligible values of the coercivity $H_{c}$ and remanence $M_{r}$ , indicate the superparamagnetic nature of the investigated samples. The calculated values of indirect optical band gap of Fe₃O₄ and RE:Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles are in the range of 0.9–1.25 eV. The dielectric constant of the samples decreases, while their activation energy increases with the increasing of ionic radii of dopants.

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Influence of rare earth ion substitutions on the structural, optical, transport, dielectric, and magnetic properties of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles

Show Author's information Hide Author's Information R. M. KERSHI^{^a^,^b}(

), F. M. ALI^{^a^,^c}, M. A. SAYED^{^a^,^d}

^a Physics Department, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, P. O. Box 9004, Abha 61413, Saudi Arabia

^b Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Ibb University, Yemen

^c Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt

^d Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Assiut 71524, Egypt

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Keywords: dielectric constant, electrical conductivity, superparamgnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs), rare earth (RE) ions, structure, optical and activation energies, saturation magnetization

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