“…The additives could improve magnetic properties (such as magnetic permeability, eddy current loss, hysteresis loss) and/or electrical properties by different mechanisms: (1) segregation to the grain boundaries and affecting the grainboundary resistivity, (2) dissolution into the grains and altering the magnetic properties, and (3) affecting the microstructure development for example by liquid-phase sintering [8]. Among these additives, SiO 2 has an important effect on the microstructure and magnetic properties of ferrites [8][9][10][11][12][13]. By adding SiO 2 , average grain size and magnetic permeability increase [11].…”