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Cadmium ferrite particles have been synthesized using co-precipitation technique followed by a low temperature (600°C) annealing in a time scale much shorter than reported in literature. Incorporation of sodium chloride during annealing helps to form a single phase spinel structure with a final particle size of around 50 nm. Even at such a short length scale we observe the overall magnetic properties to be similar to those of the bulk. The observed magnetic properties can be explained on the basis of an anti-ferromagnetic core with a shell containing ‘ferromagnetic-like’, but canted spin structure.
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Desai, R., Mehta, R.V., Upadhyay, R.V. et al. Bulk magnetic properties of CdFe2O4 in nano-regime. Bull Mater Sci 30, 197–203 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12034-007-0035-4
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