Enhanced room temperature ferromagnetism in antiferromagnetic NiO nanoparticles
Enhanced room temperature ferromagnetism in antiferromagnetic NiO nanoparticles
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DOI:
10.1063/1.4928426
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发表时间:
2015-08
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1.6
通讯作者:
P. Ravikumar;B. Kisan;A. Perumal
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作者:
P. Ravikumar;B. Kisan;A. Perumal
We report systematic investigations of structural, vibrational, resonance and magnetic properties of nanoscale NiO powders prepared by ball milling process under different milling speeds for 30 hours of milling. Structural properties revealed that both pure NiO and as-milled NiO powders exhibit face centered cubic structure, but average crystallite size decreases to around 11 nm along with significant increase in strain with increasing milling speed. Vibrational properties show the enhancement in the intensity of one-phonon longitudinal optical (LO) band and disappearance of two-magnon band due to size reduction. In addition, two-phonon LO band exhibits red shift due to size-induced phonon confinement effect and surface relaxation. Pure NiO powder exhibit antiferromagnetic nature, which transforms into induced ferromagnetic after size reduction. The average magnetization at room temperature increases with decreasing the crystallite size and a maximum moment of 0.016 μB/f.u. at 12 kOe applied field and coe...