In present review we have focused various issues like solubility limit, magnetic interaction and conduction mechanism of rare earth doped ferrite. Cumulative effects of valence state, magnetic moments of rare earth ions, weakening/strengthening of exchange interaction and magnetic ordering in rare earth ion doped ferrite are responsible for magnetic behavior. It is proposed that characterization techniques based on synchrotron radiation like X-ray absorption spectroscopy and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism can open pathways to prove these assumptions.Keywords: Rare earth, ferrites, magnetic interaction, valence state 1.INTRODUCTIONSpinel ferrites are ferrimagnetic material which have numerous technological applications [1][2][3]. Moreover, nanoparticles of these ferrites are being utilized in high-density magnetic information storage, magnetic resonance imaging, drug delivery etc. [4][5][6]. These several applications are based on magnetic and electrical behavior of ferrites [1][2][3][4][5][6]. These properties depend on various factors like, ionic radii, nature of hybridization, presence of doped atom in host lattice apart from the particle size [7][8][9][10]. Thus, research is being carried out for doped ferrite systems in order to understand the altered behavior and to optimize them for different applications [11][12][13][14][15]. In recent years, rare earth (RE) doped ferrites become interesting due to their superiority for various applications over other doped ferrite systems [17][18][19][20][21][22]. These systems become radioactive and exhibit potentential for biomedical applications [19] along-with efficient tumor passive targeting [23]. Improved capability of dye removal [24], waste water treatment [25], degradation of organic pollutants through photocatalytic activity [26] are other important fields of utilization of these ferrites. These ferrites exhibit enhanced magneto optical kerr (MOKE) effect [20] and excellent microwave absorption properties [21,22]. Thus, these ferrites cover a wide range of applications chiefly based on their magnetic characteristics [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. However, there is lack of understanding of magnetic interaction, conduction mechanism inside these ferrites [15,16]. Thus purpose of this review article is to discuss these issues and to give prospects for future research in this direction. SPINEL FERRITEThe general formula for spinel ferrite is MO:Fe2O3 where, M is a divalent transition metal ion. Spinel name is given due to resemblance of structure of these ferrites with mineral spinel MgO.Al2O3. In this structure, oxygen ions are packed quite close together in face centred cubic arrangement and metal ions occupy spaces between them (Fig. 1). These spaces are categorized as tetrahedral (A) and octahedral (B) sites when surrounded by four and six oxygen ions respectively (Fig. 1).In a unit cell of spinel ferrite, there exists 64 and 32 A and B-sites respectively. Only 1/8 th and 1/2 th of A and B-sites are occupied [27]. Metal ions are distributed among A a...

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We studied the effect on the electronic and magnetic properties of the N defect in clean and Cu-doped wurtzite III-nitrides by using the first-principles calculations. When it is doped two Cu atoms in the nearest neighboring sites, the system of AlN, GaN, or InN with the N vacancy is energetically more favorable than that without the N vacancy site. When the Cu concentration increases, the total magnetic moment of a supercell becomes small. The ferromagnetism of Cu atom is very low due to the weak 3d-3d coupling. It is noticeable that the spinexchange interaction between the Cu-3d and N defect states is important.

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We studied the electronic and magnetic properties of (Al1−yMny)GaP2(Ga-rich) and Al(Ga1−yMny)P2(Al-rich) withy = 0.03125, 0.0625, 0.09375, and 0.125 by using the first-principles calculations. The ferromagnetic Mn-doped AlGaP2chalcopyrite is the most energetically favorable one. The spin polarized Al(GaMn)P2state (Al-rich system) is more stable than spin polarized (AlMn)GaP2state (Ga-rich) with the magnetic moment of 3.8 μB/Mn. The Mn-doped AlGaP2yields strong half-metallic ground states. The states of host Al, Ga, or P atoms at the Fermi level are mainly a P-3pcharacter, which mediates a strong interaction between the Mn-3dand P-3pstates.