Abstract
Improvement in the magnetic properties of hard/ soft ferrite nanocomposites was studied by varying the composition of the soft phase in SrFe12O19/Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 nanocomposites. The SrFe12O19/Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 nanocomposites were prepared using the mechanical alloying method. The samples were prepared by varying the amount of the soft phase from 10 to 50 wt% while the amount of the hard phase remained 100 wt% in the ferrite nanocomposites. X-ray diffraction (XRD), a vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM), and a transmission electron microscope (TEM) were used to characterize the samples. From the result, it was found that the nanocomposite magnet with 10 wt% of soft phase content had the highest remanence ratio, Mr/ Ms, which was 0.61, while the values of the coercivity, Hc, and magnetization, Ms, measured were 4482.4 G and 9.71 emu/g, respectively, and the average particle size of the ferrite nanocomposites was < 50 nm for all the samples. It was also shown that Hc decreased as the weight percent of the soft ferrite increased, which resulted from the dipolar interaction that occurred in the ferrite nanocomposites, showing the effect of phase distribution on the magnetic properties.
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