Synthesis and Characterization of CuCr1.4Co0.6O4 Spinel Nanostructures: Impact of Cobalt Doping on Optical and Photocatalytic Properties

Authors Soumaia Khaldi 1, Abdelfattah Allaoui1, Louiza Zenkhri1, Safa Besra2, Ece. T. Saka3, Cagla Akkol3
Affiliations

1Laboratory for Valorization and Promotion of Saharan Resources (VPRS), Chemistry Department, Kasdi Merbah University, UKMO, 30000 Ouargla, Algeria

2Laboratory for Development of New and Renewable Energies in Arid and Saharan Zones (LENREZA), Physical Department, Kasdi Merbah University, UKMO, 30000 Ouargla, Algeria

3 Inorganic Research Laboratories, Chemistry Department, Karadeniz Technical University, KTU, 61080 Trabzon, Turkiye

Е-mail khaldi.soumaia@univ-ouargla.dz
Issue Volume 18, Year 2026, Number 4
Dates Received 23 November 2026; revised manuscript received 16 August 2026; published online 21 August 2026
Citation Soumaia Khaldi 1, Abdelfattah Allaoui1, J. Nano- Electron. Phys. 18 No 4, 04032 (2026)
DOI https://doi.org/10.21272/jnep.18(4).04032
PACS Number(s) 81.20.Ka, 81.07.Bc, 82.50.Hp
Keywords Spinel nanostructures, Combustion method, Optical properties (22) , Photocatalysis (4) , 4-nitrophenol.
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A theoretical model of linear dipole-exchange spin waves in a conducting ferromagnetic (easy-axis ferromagnet) nanotube with an elliptic cross-section subjected to an axial temperature gradient is developed. The temperature gradient generates a thermoelectric spin-polarized current, whose action on magnetization dynamics is described by Zhang–Li spin-transfer torque terms. Exchange interaction, dipole-dipole interaction, uniaxial anisotropy and Gilbert damping are taken into account within the linearized Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation and the magnetostatic approximation. The corresponding dispersion relation is derived. It is shown that the thermally induced spin current produces a Doppler-type shift of the real part of the spin-wave frequency and modifies the effective damping through the nonadiabatic spin-transfer contribution. The condition of spin-wave excitation is obtained. The ellipticity of the cross-section affects the spectrum through transverse quantization: the fundamental mode remains identical to that of a circular nanotube, whereas nonzero transverse modes are described by Mathieu functions in elliptic cylindrical co-ordinates. Implicit expression for the transverse wavenumber has been found and (for a nanotube close to a circular one) simplified into an explicit asymptotic expression for the ellipticity-induced correction to the transverse wavenumber. The leading effect of ellipticity is shown to be splitting of the transverse doublet for the first mode, while higher modes acquire no first-order wavenumber shift in this approximation. The results demonstrate that the temperature gradient controls longitudinal propagation and damping, whereas ellipticity provides an additional geometrical mechanism for tuning transverse spin-wave modes in nanoscale magnonic and spin-caloritronic devices.

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