Quantitative analysis of diffraction and infra-red spectra of composite cement/BaSO4/Fe3O4 for determining correlation between attenuation coefficient, structural and optical properties

Abstract

To better understand the structural and optical properties of composite cement/BaSO4/Fe3O4 for various amount of BaSO4/Fe3O4, the X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy have been used to investigate the correlation between their structural and optical properties. The structural properties including crystallite size, micro strain, stress and energy deformation were analyzed from the quantitative analysis of XRD spectra by using size-strain plot (SSP) methods. The refractive index (n), extinction coefficient (k), dielectric functions (ε), and energy loss function (Im (−1/ε)) were analyzed from the quantitative analysis of FTIR spectra by using kramers-kronig (K–K) relations. The corresponding structures for high amount of BaSO4/Fe3O4 in composite cement/BaSO4/Fe3O4 become less stable which consistent with the distance between the wavenumber of transversal and longitudinal optical phonon vibration mode become shorter. For all composites cement/BaSO4/Fe3O4 in this study, we found that the distance wavenumber (Δ) between longitudinal optical (LO) and transversal optical (TO) phonon vibration decrease with increasing the crystallite size and linear attenuation coefficient. Our results indicated that the FTIR spectra could be useful for determining the optical phonon vibration, dielectric function, and energy loss function of composite cement/BaSO4/Fe3O4.