STUDY OF THE MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF THE MIXED PEROVSKITES OF IRON AND MANGANESE
Multiferroic, perovskite, combustion, superparamagnetic
The continued and growing demand for high-performance, more versatile and miniaturized electronic devices has increased interest in the study and development of new materials. The multiferroic (magnetoelectrics, magnetoelastoelectrics, and ferroelectric-ferroelectric) has emerged as of great interest to associate two or more ferroic properties in the same material. In this work the mixed perovskite of iron and manganese (MnFeO3) was synthesized by the combustion method, sintered at different temperatures (500 ° C, 750 ° and 900 ° C) and characterized by X-ray diffraction associated with the Rietveld method (DRX-Rietveld ) and X-Ray Fluorescence (FRX), while its magnetic properties were studied by Vibrating Sample Magnometry (VSM) and Electronic Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR).
Analysis of the DRX-Rietiveld spectra showed that in the sample sinteerized at 500 ° formation of oxides was formed while only 64% of the material was transformed into FeMnO3 of cubic structure, whereas in the samples sintered at 750 and 900 ° the formation almost that absolute of FeMnO3 with a small excess of iron oxide III, attributed to an experimental error. The X-ray fluorescence confirms the XRD information, showing the percentages of oxides formed.
Paramagnetism was investigated by EPR analysis and showed a wide signal in the region of 0.3 tesla, the calculation of the factor g gave 2.043 which is close to the theoretical value for a free electron confirming the paramagnetism. The magnetization curve as a function of the applied field (M x H) obtained by the Vsm technique, shows values for superparamagnetic material.