Dielectric and magnetic properties of some gadolinium silica nanoceramics
- Technical University, Chemical and Physics Department, 28, Memorandumului, 400114, Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Some nanostructure gadolinium silica glass-ceramics were obtained undergoing a sol gel method and a heat-treatment at 1000°C about two hours. The magnetic and dielectric properties of these samples were studied. The magnetic properties were evidenced performing susceptibility measurements in the 80-300K temperature range. A Curie-Weiss behavior has acquired. The values estimated for paramagnetic Curie temperature being small and positive suggest the presence of weak ferromagnetic interactions between Gd{sup 3+} ions. The dielectric properties were evaluated from dielectric permittivity (ε{sub r}) and dielectric loss (tanδ) measurements at the frequency 1 kHz, 10 kHz and 100 kHz, in the 25-225°C temperature range and dielectric dispersion at room temperature for 79.5 kHz - 1GHz frequency area. The dielectric properties suggest that the main polarization mechanism corresponds to interfacial polarization, characteristic for polycrystalline-structured dielectrics. The polycrystalline structure of the samples is due to the polymorphous transformations of the nanostructure silica crystallites in the presence of gadolinium oxide. They were highlighted by SEM micrographs.
- OSTI ID:
- 22257183
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1565, Issue 1; Conference: PIM 2013: International conference on processes in isotopes and molecules, Cluj Napoca (Romania), 25-27 Sep 2013; Other Information: (c) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
CERAMICS
DIELECTRIC MATERIALS
DISPERSIONS
GADOLINIUM
GADOLINIUM IONS
GADOLINIUM OXIDES
HEAT TREATMENTS
INTERACTIONS
MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
NANOSTRUCTURES
PARAMAGNETISM
PERMITTIVITY
POLARIZATION
POLYCRYSTALS
SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
SILICA
SOL-GEL PROCESS