Vibrational properties of nanoparticles iron oxide by Raman spectroscopy

Abstract

The crystal structure and atomic dynamics of Fe3O4 nanoparticles have been studied. The crystal structure of iron oxide nanoparticles was determined by X-ray diffraction. The analysis showed that the crystal structure of [Formula: see text] 50–100 nm dimensional iron oxide corresponds to a high symmetry cubic crystal structure. Calculations have shown that there are four infrared active, five Raman active and seven hyper-Raman active modes in the space group Fd-3m with cubic symmetry. Four of these modes have been observed using Raman spectroscopy: 213, 271, 380 and 591 cm[Formula: see text]. The vibrational modes are interpreted by Gaussian function. It was found that these vibration modes correspond to the vibration of O–Fe–O bonds and iron-oxygen polyhedra.