Research & Reviews: Journal of Material Sciences
MenuISSN:2321-6212
ISSN:2321-6212
Ricardo A M Gotardo, L F Cotica and I A Santos
Federal University of Parana, Brazil State University of Maringa, Brazil
ScientificTracks Abstracts: Res. Rev. J Mat. Sci
Bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3; BFO) is one of the most studied multiferroic materials, mainly due to its reported magnetoelectric properties at room temperature, potential use in nonvolatile memory applications and developments in the fundamentals of solid state physics. BFO ferroelectric and antiferromagnetic phase transitions are found significantly above room temperature, i.e., it is a ferroelectric material below Tc~1100 K and an anti-ferromagnetic one below TN~650 K. The drawbacks of BFO for bulk practical applications are the low resistivity and the difficult to synthetize single-phased polycrystalline materials. To overcome the low DC electrical resistivity, one solution is doping these materials with multiple valence ions like Mn. Also, Cr ions can be used to improve polarization. Therefore, in this work, we describe the structural; dielectric, magnetic and Mossbauer spectroscopy studies in 0.9BiFeO3 - 0.1BaTiO3 solid solutions doped with Mn and Cr processed by high-energy ball milling. Especially for the Mn doped samples a structurally correlated magnetization enhancement is reported. X-ray diffraction and Rietveld refinement studies revealed a distorted perovskite structure with the coexistence of rhombohedral and monoclinic symmetries. Mössbauer spectroscopy results showed a magnetic spectral signature of ordered Fe3+ ions for the rhombohedral phase of the undoped sample and for both rhombohedral and monoclinic phases of the Mn doped samples. A significant magnetization increase (reaching 0.50 emu/g), associated to the magnetic ordering of the Cm phase and to the retention of the Mn3+ valence state was observed for Mn doped samples.
Ricardo A M Gotardo has studied Physics and has pursued his PhD in Condensed Matter Physics at the State University of Maringa. He is a Professor at the Technological Federal University of Paraná in Cornélio Procópio since 2013. His research focuses on multiferroic materials, relating materials structure with the magnetic and electronic properties.
E-mail: ramgotardo@gmail.com