Magnetic characterization of rare earth doped spinel ferrite

Doping spinel structure with large rare earth ions can alter the physical properties of the lattice, which can be used for tuning the magnetic and electrical properties of the ferrite material. We investigated the effect of rare earth doping on the crystal properties such as magnetoimpedance. The X-ray and HRTEM data revealed that the strain increases with increasing the ionic radius of the rare-earth. The Study implemented three types of rare earth, namely Dy, Gd, and Sm. The rare earth ions are in the Spinel crystal of Mn-Cr ferrite. The magnetoimpedance showed all negative slope, with the Gd-doped Mn-Cr ferrite sample, have the giant magnetoimpedance up to 60% drop in impedance at electric field frequency 10 kHz. The magnetisation and remanence of the samples were correlated to the microstrain, in which the magnetisation and remanence of the rare earth doped Mn-Cr ferrite samples decrease as the microstrain increases. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.