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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2012, Article ID 154192, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2012/154192 Research Article Effects of Annealing Temperature on Structure and Magnetic Properties of Tb Y Fe O (x = 0.2 and 0.4) Thin Films x 3−x 5 12 N. B. Ibrahim, Ftema W. Aldbea, and Mustaffa Hj Abdullah School of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Malaysia Correspondence should be addressed to N. B. Ibrahim, baayah@ukm.my Received 14 January 2012; Revised 15 February 2012; Accepted 29 March 2012 Academic Editor: Weichang Hao Copyright © 2012 N. B. Ibrahim et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Terbium-substituted yttrium iron garnet (Tb Y Fe O (x = 0.2 and 0.4)) thin films have been successfully prepared by a sol-gel x 3−x 5 12 method followed by spin-coating process. The annealing of the films was performed at different temperatures like 700, 800, and ◦ ◦ 900 C and found that the films annealed at 900 C turned out to be crystallized into a pure garnet phase. All of the films were bearing grains of nanometer in size. Increasing the annealing temperature gave extra energy to the grains causing to be agglomer- ates. The lattice contraction occurred as the grain’s sizes were decreased due to the decrease of Fe2+ formation. The magnetic meas- urements show that all of the films are soft magnetic materials with low saturat