Mössbauer study of the re-entrant spin-glass behaviour in the mixed spinel ferrites Mg(0.9+x)Fe2(1−x)Ni0.1TixO4 (x=0.5 and 0.6)

Abstract Samples of the mixed spinel ferrite series Mg (0.9+ x ) Fe 2(1− x ) Ni 0.1 Ti x O 4 with x =0.5 and 0.6, prepared by solid state reaction of the appropriate oxides, have been investigated with 57 Fe Mossbauer spectroscopy. The as-prepared samples are found to be mainly superparamagnetic due to magnetic cluster formation. Samples after at least three times reheated exhibit spectra, which can be rather interpreted by a transversal relaxation of the spin above and spin-glass behaviour below the respective freezing temperatures T f . External-field spectra reveal the canting to occur only on the octahedral sites. From the derived transition temperatures and thresholds together with data from earlier investigated sample with x =0.7 a compositional magnetic phase diagram for this spinel series is obtained.