JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS, v.552, pp.169218
Abstract
The effect of compression and heat treatment on the microstructural morphology and magnetic characteristics of the imperfectly crystallized yttrium-iron-garnet (Y3Fe5O12, YIG) matrix was observed by optimizing the sol-gel synthesis process. In particular, among the various temperatures when calcination was performed at 850 degrees C, we observed that an epsilon-phase Fe2O3 with a giant coercive field but low saturation magnetization was formed in the YIG matrix.