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http://dx.doi.org/10.4283/JKMS.2006.16.1.018

Effects of Vanadium Doping on Magnetic Properties of Inverse Spinel Fe3O4 Thin Films  

Kim, Kwang-Joo (Department of Physics, Konkuk University)
Choi, Seung-Li (Department of Physics, Konkuk University)
Park, Young-Ran (Department of Physics, Konkuk University)
Park, Jae-Yun (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Incheon)
Abstract
Effects of V substitution of Fe on the magnetic properties of $Fe_3O_4$ have been investigated by x-ray diffraction (XRD), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), conversion electron Mossbauer spectroscopy (CEMS), and vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM) measurements on sol-gel-grown films. XRD data indicates that the $V_xFe_{3-x}O_4$ films maintain cubic structure up to x=1.0 with little change of the lattice constant. Analyses on V 2p and Fe 2p levels of the XPS data indicate that V exist as $V^{3+}$ mostly in the $V_xFe_{3-x}O_4$ films with the density of $V^{2+}$ ions increasing with increasing V content. Analyses on the CEMS data indicate that $V^{3+}$ ions substitute tetrahedral $Fe^{3+}$ sites mostly, while $V^{2+}$ ions octahedral $Fe^{2+}$ sites. Results of room-temperature VSM measurements on the films reveal that the saturation magnetization for the x=0.14 sample is larger than that of $Fe_3O_4$, while it becomes smaller than that of $Fe_3O_4$ for $x{\geq}0.5$. The coercivity of the $V_xFe_{3-x}O_4$ films is found to increase with x, attributed to the increase of anisotropy by the substitution of $V^{2+}(d^3)$ ions into the octahedral sites.
Keywords
inverse spinel; thin film; substitution; lattice constant; magnetization;
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