In this study, we demonstrate a synthesis of rhodium substituted 3-iron oxide, 3-Rh x Fe 2Àx O 3 (0 # x # 0.19), nanoparticles in silica. The synthesis features a sol-gel method to coat the metal hydroxide sol containing Fe 3+ and Rh 3+ ions with a silica sol via hydrolysis of alkoxysilane to form a composite gel. The obtained samples are barrel-shaped nanoparticles with average long-and short-axial lengths of approximately 30 nm and 20 nm, respectively. The crystallographic structure study using X-ray diffraction shows that 3-Rh x Fe 2Àx O 3 has an orthorhombic crystal structure in the Pna2 1 space group. Among the four nonequivalent substitution sites (A-D sites), Rh 3+ ions mainly substitute into the C sites. The formation mechanism of 3-Rh x Fe 2Àx O 3 nanoparticles is considered to be that the large surface area of the nanoparticles increases the contribution from the surface energy to Gibbs free energy, resulting in a different phase, 3-phase, becoming the most stable phase compared to that of bulk or single crystal. The measured electromagnetic wave absorption characteristics due to natural resonance (zero-field ferromagnetic resonance) using terahertz time domain spectroscopy reveal that the natural resonance frequency shifts from 182 GHz (3-Fe 2 O 3) to 222 GHz (3-Rh 0.19 Fe 1.81 O 3) upon rhodium substitution. This is the highest natural resonance frequency of a magnetic material, and is attributed to the large magnetic anisotropy due to rhodium substitution. The estimated coercive field for 3-Rh 0.19 Fe 1.81 O 3 is as large as 28 kOe.