Structural and Optical Characterization of Cadmium Ferrite and Manganese Ferrite Nanoparticles synthesized via Co-precipitation route

Abstract

Spinel ferrite nanoparticles have been of tremendous interest in the arena of nanomaterial synthesis and has applications comprising industrial effluent treatment, as biosensors and for photocatalysis. Cadmium ferrite and manganese ferrite nanoparticles have been in the limelight recently due to their versatile applications. In the present work, nanoparticles of cadmium ferrite and manganese ferrite were synthesized using chemical precipitation method and were calcined at 600 ⁰C and 1000 ⁰C. It was observed from the XRD pattern that the samples were in normal spinel structure. The grain size of the samples was calculated using Debye-Scherrer as well as Hall-Williamson method. The optical band gap was calculated from UV-Visible absorption spectrum. The vibrational properties of the samples were studied using micro-Raman technique.