Structural and magnetic properties of xFe2 TiO4 · (1 - X)Fe3O4 (0.75 ≤ x ≤ 1)

Xinye Liu*, Monica Sorescu, Jingxian Wang, Whitney Schoenthal, Zhili Dong, Raju V. Ramanujan, David E. Laughlin, Michael E. McHenry

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Abstract

Titanomagnetites (TMs) [pseudobinary (1? x)Fe3O4 · xFe2 TiO4 oxides, where, e.g., TM75 corresponds to x ?0.75] are magnetic minerals with a spinel structure. Ulvöspinel (Fe2TiO4) and TMs were made using a solid-state synthesis technique, and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) characterization and measurement of the TM samples were performed to further confirm the homogeneity of the samples and cation site occupancies. The Mössbauer spectra in the TMs exhibited an anomalous composition dependence at x = 0.95, when fitted with two instead of three quadrupole split doublets. This result was reinforced by the obtained dependence of the recoilless fraction on the composition, which exhibited an extremum at x = 0.95.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6971511
JournalIEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Volume50
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 1 2014
Externally publishedYes

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ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • Martian minerals
  • Mössbauer studies
  • remnant magnetization
  • titanomagnetite (TM)

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