Magnetism in a Spintronic Compound Zr0.8Cr0.2O2 of Small Crystallites

Author:

Sengupta Arundhati1,Misra Susmita1,Ram Shanker1

Affiliation:

1. Indian Institute of Technology

Abstract

A transition metal ion Cr4+(3d2 spins) doped ZrO2 of small crystallites presents tailored magnetic, electrical and optical properties useful for magnetodielectric and spintronic applications. A liquid polymer precursor gel (Cr4+ and Zr4+ complex with glycerol) when heated in an autoclave at a small pressure 0.6-0.7 atm at 420–470 K results in a compound Zr0.8Cr0.2O2 with an average 5 nm crystallite size of a stabilized cubic (c)-ZrO2-type phase (after 2 h annealing at 773 K in air). A broad Raman band is observed at ~300 cm-1 in acoustic and transverse optic phonons characteristic of the c-ZrO2-type structure, with a prominent O–Cr–O stretching band at 878 cm-1 in a ferromagnetic order. A CrO2/Cr2O3 surface layer exhibits two weak bands at ~1011 cm-1 and 1032 cm-1. The sample exhibits an ‘S’-shaped ferromagnetic hysteresis loop (does not saturate below 60 kOe fields) at 5 K, with a magnetization M = 85.79 emu/g (in the CrO2 part) at 60 kOe and coercivity Hc = 100 Oe. With warming above 5 K, the loop converges progressively with only a weak ferromagnetism at room temperature, M = 9.08 emu/g and Hc = 54.2 Oe. As a pinning barrier, the uncompensated spins in the surface layer supports coercivity at low temperature. A model magnetic structure describes the magnetic properties in correlation to the microstructure.

Publisher

Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.

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