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DOI: 10.1063/1.4869077
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Enhanced magnetic behavior, exchange bias effect, and dielectric property of BiFeO3 incorporated in (BiFeO3)0.50 (Co0.4Zn0.4Cu0.2 Fe2O4)0.5 nanocomposite

Kakali Mukhopadhyay,Abhik Sinha Mahapatra,Soumyaditya Sutradhar,P.K. Chakrabarti

Materials science
Multiferroics
Nanocomposite
2014
Nanoparticles of BiFeO3 (BFO) are incorporated in the nanocomposite of (BiFeO3)0.50 (Co0.4Zn0.4Cu0.2 Fe2O4)0.5, (BFO-CZCF) and these are prepared by chemical route. The formation of pure crystallographic phase of each component (BFO and CZCF) in the nanocomposite of BFO-CZCF has been confirmed by Rietveld analysis of the X-ray diffractograms using FULLPROF program. Morphology, average particle size and its distribution, crystallographic phase etc. are obtained from the high-resolution transmission electron microscopy of BFO-CZCF. Magnetic measurements of BFO-CZCF have been carried out to explore the modulation of magnetic behavior of BFO in BFO-CZCF. Interestingly, magnetization of BFO-CZCF has been drastically enhanced compared to that of the pristine BFO. An exchange bias effect is also observed in the M vs. H loops of BFO-CZCF recorded in field cooled and zero field cooled conditions, which suggest that nanoparticles of BFO (AFM) are encapsulated by nanoparticles of CZCF (FM) in BFO-CZCF. Thermal variation of dielectric constant of BFO-CZCF is recorded in the range of 300 to 1073 K and a ferroelectric to paraelectric transition is observed at ∼728 K. Enhanced magnetic property of BFO would quite interesting for this important multiferroic.
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    Enhanced magnetic behavior, exchange bias effect, and dielectric property of BiFeO3 incorporated in (BiFeO3)0.50 (Co0.4Zn0.4Cu0.2 Fe2O4)0.5 nanocomposite” is a paper by Kakali Mukhopadhyay Abhik Sinha Mahapatra Soumyaditya Sutradhar P.K. Chakrabarti published in 2014. It has an Open Access status of “gold”. You can read and download a PDF Full Text of this paper here.