Evolution of Structural and Functional Properties of the Fe/BaTiO3 System Guided by Mechanochemical and Thermal Treatment

  • Nemanja Stojanović Joint Laboratory for Advanced Materials of SASA, Section for Amorphous Materials, Faculty of Technical Sciences Čačak, University of Kragujevac
  • Aleksandra Kalezić-Glišović Joint Laboratory for Advanced Materials of SASA, Section for Amorphous Materials, Faculty of Technical Sciences Čačak, University of Kragujevac
  • Aco Janićijević Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade
  • Aleksa Maričić Joint Laboratory for Advanced Materials of SASA, Section for Amorphous Materials, Faculty of Technical Sciences Čačak, University of Kragujevac

Abstract

Multiferroic systems are attractive to the researches worldwide due to diversity of existing applications, as well as possible novel ones. In order to contribute to understanding of the processes that take place within the structure of such a system, we subjected it to mechanochemical activation and thermal treatment. Powdery mixtures of iron and barium titanate in a mass ratio of 30 % Fe and 70 % BaTiO3 were activated in a planetary ball mill for time duration of 30 to 300 min and subsequently sintered at 1200 °C in the atmosphere of air. During the activation the system undergoes structural phase transitions, whereby the content of iron and its oxides changes. The highest Fe content was observed in the sample activated for 270 min, with local maxima in crystallite size and microstrain values and a minimum in dislocation density. The complex dielectric permittivity changes in the applied radio frequency field, ranging from 176.9 pF/m in the sample activated for 90 min to 918.1 pF/m in the sample activated for 180 min. As the frequency of the field increases, an exponential decrease in the magnetic with a simultaneous increase in the electrical energy losses is noticeable. The system exhibits ferromagnetic resonance, where by longer activation in the mill shifts the resonant frequency to higher values. Negative electrical resistance was observed in all analyzed samples. The activation time changes both the demagnetization temperature and the Curie temperature of the samples undergoing heating and cooling cycles in the external permanent magnetic field. Curie temperature is the highest in the sample activated for 240 min. Thermal treatment increases the initial magnetization of all samples, with the most pronounced increase of ~95% in the sample activated for 300 min.

Published
2020-05-05
Issue
Vol 52 No 2 (2020)
Section
Articles

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