Authors: Ali Erdem Eken Macit Ozenbas
Publish Date: 2009/04/17
Volume: 50, Issue: 3, Pages: 321-327
Abstract
Nanocrystalline films of magnetite have been prepared by a novel sol–gel route in which a solution of iron III nitrate dissolved in ethylene glycol was applied on glass substrates by spin coating Coating solution showed Newtonian behaviour and viscosity was found as 00215 Pas Annealing temperature was selected between 291 and 350 °C by DTA analysis in order to obtain magnetite films Inplane grazing angle XRD and TEM studies showed that magnetite phase was present upon annealing the films at 300 °C The films had crack free surfaces and their thicknesses varied between ~10 and 200 nm UV–Vis spectrum results showed that transmittance of the films increases with decreasing annealing temperature and increasing spinning rate Up to 96 transmittance was observed between the wavelengths of 900–1100 nm Vibrating sample magnetometer measurements indicated that magnetite thin films showed ferromagnetic behavior and the saturation magnetization value was found as ~35 emu/cm3This work was supported by Middle East Technical University Research Fund through the project BAP200607020001 DTA viscosity AFM and FESEM measurements were conducted at the Central Laboratory of Middle East Technical University The authors would like to express their sincere thanks to Dr Suleyman Tari IYTE for VSM work and Dr Ozgur Duygulu TUBITAK for TEM work
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