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Low-Loss Barium Ferrite Quasi-Single-Crystals For Microwave Application, Yajie Chen, Anton Geiler, Taiyang Chen, Tomokazu Sakai, C. Vittoria, V. Harris

Vincent G. Harris

Barium hexaferrites (BaFe₁₂O₁₉) are especially useful for microwave/millimeter devices. Due to large ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) loss (linewidths > 2 kOe), traditional compacts of polycrystalline Ba ferrites indeed hinder the utilization of the materials for practical devices. The present experiment demonstrates that the quasi-single-crystal Ba ferrite disks can be fabricated by a single solid-state reaction technique without liquid phase participation, combining with a processing of alignment for the ferrite seed crystals. The ferrite bulks show a pure hexagonal Ba ferrite phase, an expected 4πMs of 4.48 kG, and coercivity of 10∽20 Oe along the c axis, similar to the results of a …