Liquid phase epitaxy magnetic garnet films and their applications

Liquid phase epitaxy （LPE） is a mature technology. Early experiments on single magnetic crystal films fabricated by LPE were focused mainly on thick films for microwave and magneto-optical devices. The LPE is an excellent way to make a thick film, low damping magnetic garnet film and high-quality magneto-optical material. Today, the principal challenge in the applied material is to create sub-micrometer devices by using modern photolithography technique. Until now the magnetic garnet films fabricated by LPE still show the best quality even on a nanoscale （about 100 nm）, which was considered to be impossible for LPE method.

Enhancement of magnetic and dielectric properties of low temperature sintered NiCuZn ferrite by Bi_(2)O_(3)-CuO additives

With a series of 1.0 wt%Bi_(2)O_(3)-x wt%CuO(x=0.0,0.2,0.4,0.6,and 0.8)serving as sintering additives,Ni_(0.23)Cu_(0.32)Zn_(0.45)Ee_(2)O_(4)ferrites are successfully synthesized at a low temperature(900℃)by using the solid state reaction method.The effects of the additives on the phase formation,magnetic and dielectric properties as well as the structural and gyromagnetic properties are investigated.The x-ray diffraction(XRD)results indicate that the added Bi_(2)O_(3)-CuO can lower the synthesis temperature significantly without the appearing of the second phase.The scanning electron microscope(SEM)images confirm that Bi_(2)O_(3)is an important factor that determines the sintering behaviors,while CuO affects the grain size and densification.With CuO content x=0.4 or 0.6,the sample shows high saturation magnetization,low coercivity,high real part of magnetic permeability,dielectric permittivity,and small ferromagnetic resonance linewidth(ΔH).The NiCuZn ferrites are a promising new generation of high-performance microwave devices,such as phase shifters and isolators.

Metamaterial Absorbers in Terahertz Band

In recent years, a great deal of effort has been made to a create terahertz （THz） wave absorber based on metamaterials （MM）. Metamaterials absorbers have a variety of potential applications including thermal emitters, detector, stealth technology, phase imaging, etc. In this paper, we firstly introduce the basic structure and work principle of the THz MM absorbers, and a transmission line model is developed for devices analysis. To expand the application of THz absorbers, dual-band and broadband THz MM absorbers are designed, fabricated, and measured. At the end of this article, the future development trends of MM absorbers are discussed.

Additional Y^(3+) or Al^(3+) Dopants on the Ferromagnetism of Co Doped Ceria Diluted Magnetic Oxide

Al2O3 and Y2O3 have been respectively chosen for additional dopants to investigate the influence on the ferromagnetism of Co doped CeO2 bulk. Results indicate that ferromagnetism （FM） of Co doped CeO2 decrease with additional Al^3＋. Accordingly, certain amount of Y^3＋ can readily be incorporated into the lattice of CeO2 with the decrease of its grain size as well as some pores formation, leading to an enhancement of FM with a positive correlation between magnetization and Y^3＋ doping content. This experimental result is helpful both in understanding FM origination in diluted magnetic oxide （DMO） as well as to improve the moments of DMO applicable in spintronic devices.

Room Temperature Ferromagnetismin Co-doped ZnO Bulks

Pure single phase of Zn0.95Co0.05O bulks were successfully prepared by solid-state reaction method. The effects of annealing atmosphere and temperature on the room temperature ferromagnetic behavior were investigated. The results show that the air-annealed samples has similar weak ferromagnetic behavior with the as-sintered samples, but the obvious ferromagnetic behavior is observed for the samples annealed in vacuum or Ar/H2 gas, indicating that the strong ferromagnetism is associated with high oxygen vacancies density. High saturation magnetization Ms=0.73 μB/Co and coercivity Hc=233.8Oe are obtained for the Ar/H2 annealed samples with pure single phase structure when annealing temperature is 600℃.

Structure and magnetic properties of NiCuZn ferrite materials with La doping

Ni0.3Cu0.07Zn0.63Fe2-xLaxO4 ferrites were prepared by solid phase method and sintered at 1,150 ℃ for 6 h.The phase formation,microstructure,and magnetic properties of samples were investigated.With doping of La3＋,the samples contain two phases：LaFeO3 and NiCuZn ferrites.Scanning electron microscope （SEM） image shows that La doping constrains the growth of NiCuZn ferrite,which is more uniform.La doping improves magnetic properties of NiCuZn ferrite when x ≤ 0.03.The saturation magnetization （Ms） increases first;when x =0.03,the highest value is 75.35 A.m2.kg-1.The permeability increases to the maximum value with frequency and then decreases with the concentration of La3＋ increasing.When x =0.03,the maximum value of real permeability at 1 MHz is 333.5,and the loss angle tangent （tanδ） is not more than 0.02.La doping improves the properties of NiCuZn ferrite,which can be applied to low-frequency filters.