Novel Ceramic Materials, Chapter 3

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Inter Bond Experimental Electron Density in Magnesium Ferrite Ceramic (MgFe2O4) Through XRD

M.J. Viswanath, M. Aysha kani, S.V. Meenakshi, R. Saravanan

The magnesium ferrite (MgFe2O4) sample is prepared with the solid state reaction method. It was characterized by Powder-XRD, UV-visible and SEM. The average crystallite sizes are calculated by the Debye Scherrer’s formula in the range of micrometers. From the XRD data the electron density is evaluated using the MEM (Maximum Entropy Method) analysis. UV- visible spectroscopy was used to calculate the band gap value of the material and the particle size is measured through SEM.

Keywords
Spinel Cubic, Electron Density, Bonding Nature, MEM, Direct Band Gap, Rietveld Refinement, SEM & UV-Visible

Published online 6/1/2016, 13 pages

DOI: 10.21741/9781945291036-3

Part of Novel Ceramic Materials

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