M type lithium ferrites substituted by aluminium having general chemical formula Li 0.5 Fe 0.5+x Al 12-X O 19 (where x = 1 to 6) were prepared by standard solid state reaction method The compounds are in single hexagonal phase without traces of uncertainly ambiguous reflection. From XRD pattern lattice parameters has recorded with increasing doped aluminium element in the range from a = 5.807 Å to 5.906 Å and c = 22.507 Å to 22.585 Å pertaining the space group P6 3 /mmc (No.194). The mass density of the ferrites were found linearly varies and depends upon the mass and volume of sample. The X-Ray density has depends upon the lattice constant and molecular weight of the compounds. The average particle size was also estimated. Electrical properties such as dc conductivity, activation energy were studied. Also, the type of carriers responsible in each was determined from thermoelectric studies. The higher resistivity of the compounds Li 0.5 Fe 0.5+x Al 12-X O 19 suggests less presence of mixed valence cations on equivalent lattice. While Fe show low value due to the ferrous ions present on the octahedral sites along with ferric ions.Copy Right, IJAR, 2017,. All rights reserved. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………....
Introduction:-The critical literature survey revealed that the electrical properties of hexagonal [1-4] M-type ferrites are less studied compared to its magnetic properties. This may be due to the fact that they were developed initially as permanent magnet.[5-8] Today M-type ferrites are finding applications in many diverse fields like microwave and hence their electrical properties are also becoming important. Many attempts have been made to improve the properties of M ferrites by variety of substitutions. Though M-type ferrite does not contain any monovalent cation, hence a combination of monovalent cation with some multivalent cations for charge compensation may be substituted. With this idea, a new series of materials for permanent magnets of Ba-ferrites were developed for the first time. [9][10]. Since the properties of ferrite depend on the interactions among the cations distributed over various sites, these were explained on the basis of the knowledge of site distribution of cations in the magnetoplumbite structure. In the present work M-type ferrites having common formula Li 0.5 Fe 0.5+x Al 12-X O 19 were prepared and their electrical properties such as conductivity, activation energy and thermoelectric power were studied
Materials and Methods:-The M-type compounds in the present investigations were prepared using the standard solid-state reaction method. [11,12] using AR grade oxides as starting materials. Preparation of ferrites from Hexagonal family are usually difficult as compared to Spinel ferrites and especially the M-type ferrite is one of the most difficult one. This