cation distribution in lithium ferrite (life5o8) prepared via aerosol route阳离子分布锂铁氧体(life5o8)准备通过气溶胶的路线.pdfVIP

J. Electromagnetic Analys is App lications, 2010, 2: 51-55 51 doi:10.4236/jemaa.2010.21008 Published Online January 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/j emaa) Cation Distribution in Lithium Ferrite (LiFe O ) 5 8 Prepared via Aerosol Route Sonal Singhal1,*, Kailash Chandra2 1Department of Chemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India; 2Institute Instrumentation Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. Email: sonal1174@, chandfuc@iitr.ernet.in th nd th Received July 16 , 2009; revised August 22 , 2009; accepted September 7 , 2009. ABSTRACT Nano size lithium f errite was p rep ared through aerosol route and characterized using TEM, XRD, magnetic measure- ments and M ssbauer sp ectroscopy . The p article size of as obtained samples were f ound to be ~ 10 nm through TEM, that increases upto ~80 nm on annealing at 1200 oC. The unit cell pa rameter ‘a ’calculated using XRD, confi rms the f ormation of a-LiFe O . Room temp erature M ssbauer sp ectra of as obtained samp le of all thef errites exhibited broad 5 8 doublet suggesting super pa ramagnetic nature. This doubletf urther resolved into two doublets and assigned to the sur- f ace region atoms and internal region atoms of the p articles. The annealed samples ( 1200 oC) show broad sextets, which were fitt ed with two sextets indicating different local environment of both tetrahedrally and octahedrally coordi- nated Fe-cation. Cation distribution obtained f rom the X -ray, magnetic and M ssbauer data confi rms that the three fift h of the iron atom goes in to the octahedral site. Keywords: Nano