Influence of calcination temperature on structure and multiferroic properties of barium ferrite ceramics

Abstract

In this paper, barium ferrite powders were synthesized by sol-gel method, calcined at different temperatures, and on this basis the corresponding ceramics were prepared. The effects of calcination temperature on the structure, magnetic, dielectric and multiferroic properties of BaFe12O19 ceramics were studied. XRD results confirmed similarity between powders and ceramics, where dominant phase is BaFe12O19 and a small amount of an apparent BaFe2O4 impurity phase was formed at lower calcination temperature. The impurity BaFe2O4 phase is the main reason for decreasing powder magnetization. The maximum dielectric constant of 100 (at 10 kHz) and maximum remanent polarization, remanent magnetization and saturation magnetization of 0.46 ?C/cm2, 47.37 emu/g and 79.96 emu/g, respectively, were obtained in the barium ferrite ceramics prepared from the powder calcined at 1100?C. This research could be the basis for the study of single-phase multiferroic materials and the development of multi-order electronic devices.