Synthesis and characterization of Zn doped Mn ferrites nanostructures

TL;DR

This study synthesizes Zn-doped Mn ferrite nanoparticles via co-precipitation, analyzing their structural, magnetic, and optical properties, and how these vary with synthesis conditions and annealing temperature.

Contribution

It provides a detailed characterization of Zn-doped Mn ferrite nanoparticles, highlighting how annealing temperature affects their structure, magnetic, and optical properties, which is novel in this context.

Findings

Nanoparticles have a spinel structure with sizes 42-60 nm.

Magnetic properties such as Ms and Hc increase with annealing temperature.

Optical band gap decreases as particle size increases.

Abstract

Zn doped Mn ferrites nanoparticles were fabricated by using Co-precipitation. Variation in structure, magnetic and optical properties of MnZn ferrites has been discussed. First of all, samples were synthesized, annealed at different temperatures and then characterized. The as-synthesized and annealed samples were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersive spectroscopy (EDX), Ultra Violet visible spectrometry (Uv-Vis spectrometry) and Vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). The average crystallite size of MnZn ferrites nanoparticles determined from XRD were in the range of 42 to 60 nm. These nanoparticles possess normal spinel structure. The SEM images showed the physical shape of the samples, which showed that the as prepared samples are more agglomerated and having flake like shape rather than annealed at 700C while the samples have longitudinal or rod like shape on annealing at 700C. The coercivity (Hc), saturation magnetization (Ms), and remanence (Mr) of Nps were also calculated. The (Ms) value is increasing from 26 to 65 emu/g, the coercivity (Hc) is varying from 13 to 193 Oe and remanence (Mr) has also showing increasing trend although very less, from 0.031 to 0.798 emu/g which are a little part of their bulk counter parts. The band gap energy of the samples was showing decreasing trend as with the increase of particle size which is of the order of 3.5 to 2.9 eV.