Electron Structure and Microwave Absorbing Ability of Flaky FeSiAl Powders

Soft magnetic metallic materials have been widely used for absorbing electromagnetic wave.Flaky Fe 86 t Si t Al 14（t=9,11,14 and 16） alloys powders were prepared from melt-quenched ribbons by annealing and milling.In a previous report we discussed the order-disordered structure of this alloys.In this article,we studied their electron structure.Covalence electron numbers of（111） and（100） plane increase with increasing Si content but Bohr magneton decreases.Complex permittivity and complex permeability are both decreased with increasing Si content t.The lowest value of reflectivity among the four alloys is originated from Fe 70 Si 14 Al 14.The peak values of reflectivity are all lower than 10 dB,and the absorbing frequency range（R 10 dB） increases from 1 to 2 GHz when t reaches 16.

Effect of La^(3+)substitution on structural,microstructure,magnetic properties,and microwave absorbing ability of yttrium iron garnet

Synthesis and characterization of lanthanum-doped yttrium iro n garnet(YIG)in the compositional se ries of Y_(3-x)La_(x)Fe_(5)O_(12)(x=0.0,0.1,0.3,and 0.5)were carried out.All compositions were made by using solid state reaction method with ball-milling technique.The phase formation,surface morphology,magnetic properties,and microwave absorbing ability of all compositions were characterized by using an X-ray diffractometer,a scanning electron microscope,a vibrating sample magnetometer,and a Vector network analyzer.The results reveal that all compositions are crystallized into Y_(3)Fe_(5)O_(12)phase(space group la-3d(230).It was observed that the lattice constant is increased from 1.2373 to 1.2421 nm with the increase of lanthanum substitution level from x=0.0-0.5.The crystallite size of Y_(3-x)La_(x)Fe_(5)O_(12)series calculated by Scherrer method is found to decrease from 78 nm in x=0.0-63 nm in x=0.5.The particle size distribution from the surface morphology image analysis is shifted to lower-range number with the increase of lanthanum substitution level from x=0.0 to 0.5.The substitution process also affects the lattice distortion in La-doped samples and changes the bond angles and bond lengths of the YIG structure.As the results,a linear correlation between the Fe'-O-Fe bond angle with magnetic properties parameters of saturation magnetization(M_(s))and remanence magnetization(M_(r))was studied.Due to the lanthanum substitution process,all La^(3+)-doped samples possess higher M_(s)and M_(r)values compared to the original composition.The results of Vector network analyzer show that the improvement of the M_(s)and M_(r)plays an important role in enhancing the microwave absorbing ability of the materials.The minimum RL changes from-8.22 dB(~85.22%microwave absorption)in x=0.0 to-14.21 dB(~96.25%microwave absorption)in x=0.5.The enhancement is mainly ascribed to the natural magnetic resonance loss and dipoIe-polarization loss due to the substitution process.The decreasing particle size also enhances the microwave absorbing ability of the La-doped samples via multiple-reflections mechanism.