Effect of Magnetic Pulse Processing on the Structure and Magnetic Properties of Ferrites

Abstract

The effect a pulsed magnetic field has on the crystal structure and macroscopic magnetic parameters of hexagonal ferrites BaFe₁₂O₁₉ and SrFe₁₂O₁₉ are studied. It is shown that changes in the physical properties of ferrites are due to the ordering of cation vacancies on the boundaries of hexagonal and spinel blocks that minimize local distortion of the oxygen polyhedrons. Violation of the collinear ordering of the magnetic moments of iron ions in the nonequivalent positions of SrFe₁₂O₁₉ ferrite is observed, due to the selective localization of such vacancies (and thus violations of the magnetic relationships in Fe–O–Fe).