direct and alternate current conductivity and magnetoconductivity of nanocrystalline cadmium-zinc ferrite below room temperature直接和交流电电导率和导磁性纳米晶体镉锌铁氧体低于室温.pdfVIP

Materials Sciences and Applications, 2011, 2, 226-236 doi:10.4236/msa.2011.24029 Published Online April 2011 (/journal/msa) Direct and Alternate Current Conductivity and Magnetoconductivity of Nanocrystalline Cadmium-Zinc Ferrite below Room Temperature 1 1 2 2 Somenath Ghatak , Goutam Chakraborty , Monika Sinha , Swapan Kumar Pradhan , Ajit Kumar Meikap1* 1Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology, Deemed University, Durgapur, India; 2Department of Physics, University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India E-mail: meikapnitd@ Received December 15th, 2010; revised January 4th, 2011; accepted March 4th, 2011. ABSTRACT Nanocrystalline cadmium-zinc ferrite samples were prepared by ball milling method and its electrical transport prop- erty were investigated within a temperature range 77 K ≤ T ≤300 K in presence of a magnetic field up to 1 T and in a frequency range 20 Hz to 1 MHz. The investigated samples follow a simple hopping type charge transport. The dc mag- netoconductivity has been explained in terms of orbital magnetoconductivity theory. The alternating current conductiv- / n s ity follows the universal dielectric response σ(f )  T f . The values of ‘s’ have a decreasing trend with temperature. The temperature exponent ‘n’ depends on frequency. The dielectric permittivity of the samples depends on the grain resis- tance and interfacial grain boundary resistance. The ac magnetoconductivity is positive which can be explained in terms of impedance of the sample. Keywords : Nanostructures, X-Ray Diffraction, Electrical Properties, Dielectric Properties 1. Introduction [10,11].