Study on magnetic properties of strontium ferrite based on the technology of electron paramagnetic resonance

In order to study how the ingredient, sintering temperature, oxygen, doping and other conditions affect magnetic properties of strontium ferrite powder, a strontium ferrite powder is prepared by sol-gel method, and a new method of studying magnetic properties of strontium ferrite powder based on an electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) is established in this paper. The sintered samples are tested by electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometer. Results show that alpha-Fe2O3, a paramagnetic intermediate, is most compared with other ratios under calcined at 400 degrees C and the strontium iron mole ratio of 1 : 9; while at the other temperatures it decreases and the ferromagnetic phase increases; the optimum calcination temperature is between 800 degrees C and 900 degrees C. These facts are caused by both external magnetic field and other magnetic fields, thus resulting in some new stronger magnetic moment interactions. Results also show that a large quantity of paramagnetic alpha-Fe2O3 is found under hypoxic annealing environment, which is not conducible to generating the ferrimagnetic phase; X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis shows that the others are paramagnetic and ferrimagnetic phase except a bit of other phases; both EPR spectra and XRD spectra show that the paramagnetic phase is least, and ferrimagnetic phase is most in the sintering sample when strontium iron mole ratio is 1 : 9, so the sample owns the strongest magnetism. The sample remanence experiment by milli-tesla meter also confirms these results. It is also found that paramagnetic phase can effectively decrease and ferrimagnetism is enhanced when samples are doped by lanthanum ion accounting for 20%-30% of the total number of moles of strontium lanthanum.