The magnetic and dielectric properties of microwave sintered yttrium iron garnet (YIG)

Yttrium iron garnet (YIG) material is widely used in microwave devices. Experiments show that microwave sintering (MS) treated YIG materials possess excellent properties with a saturation magnetization of 14.60 emu/g and coercive force 34.82 Oe. In the frequency range of 1 MHz–1.8 GHz, the relative dielectric constant is from 6.5 to 7.0, the line-width is 105 Oe, dielectric loss less than 0.09 and magnetic loss less than 0.7. Furthermore, the sintering time and temperature were significantly reduced from 20 h and 1300 °C for the conventional sintering (CS) process to 2 h and 900 °C for MS technique, respectively.