Spin injection behavior in conducting polymer coated superparamagnetically functional microstructures

Abstract

A nanoferrite superparamagnetic system synthesized through co-precipitation method and subsequently dispersed in a medium of de-ionized water was encapsulated with a matrix polymer under constant sonication using chemical oxidative polymerization technique. The polymer coated functional microstructure thus obtained shows enhanced magnetization as evidenced from the results reported elsewhere. The magnetic core crystal growth and anti-spin canting hypothesis were given to be the most general justification behind the unusual enhancement in magnetization and more specifically the rationale could understand recently in accordance with spin injection behavior in functional core-shell microstructures. In this paper, an attempt has been made to correlate the previous magnetization results with spin injection behavior, in conjunction with the thermo gravimetric and dielectric results.