Interfacial effect on the microwave absorption properties in Y3Fe5O12/Fe2O3

Abstract

In this work, the interfacial effect on the electromagnetic wave (EMW) absorbing performance in Y3Fe5O12 and Fe2O3 material system synthesized by one-step sol–gel method followed by various sintering temperature was studied. The synthesized samples were first characterized by performing x-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM) and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) measurements. A linear dependence of the saturation magnetization with the YIG content in the samples was observed that the saturation magnetization increases from 4.18 to 20.2 emu/g when the YIG crystal content is increased from 43 % to 88 %. Then, the EMW absorbing performance were studied by measuring dielectric parameters of the samples in the X-band. The experimental results indicate that the higher sintering temperature reduce the intensity of Fe2O3 peaks and enhance the formation of YIG chemical structure. Due to the both Fe2O3 and YIG crystal phases, the Fe2O3/Y3Fe5O12 interface enhances the EMW polarization and thus EMW absorbing performance. The minimum reflection loss was determined as −15.4 dB at 9.5 GHz frequency in YF1000 sample. The experimental results demonstrate that the sintering temperature has the prominent effect on the structural, magnetic and EMW absorbing properties of YIG. The results would be useful for the YIG-based microwave device applications.