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ABSTRACT
Magnetic fluid is a kind of colloid consist of nano-structured ferromagnetic
particles disperse in the carrier liquid by means of surfactant. It is a novel functional
material in optical field, which has both the magnetism of the solid magnetic materials
and the fluidity of liquid besides the tunable optical properties.
The magneto-optical effect of composite magnetic fluids doped nonmagnetic
microspheres were investigated mainly in this treatise. Composite magnetic fluids have
been obtained by doping silicon dioxide and polystyrene nonmagnetic microspheres
into the pure ferrite magnetic fluids. The relationship between the magnetic-field-
induced birefringence of composite magnetic fluids and the species, concentrations of
nonmagnetic microspheres and pure ferrite magnetic fluids were investigated in detail.
Results indicate that pure magnetic fluids with different concentrations doped with
equal quantity of polystyrene microspheres have different variation trends for the
birefringence with respect to the externally magnetic field. Different kinds of
nonmagnetic microspheres have different influence on the change of birefringence after
doping into the same pure magnetic fluids. When doping with two-kind-mixed
nonmagnetic microspheres (equal quantity but different proportion between the two
kinds of microspheres), one kind of the nonmagnetic microspheres will play a leading
role in the variation of birefringence with externally magnetic field. Then, the variation
trend of the birefringence with externally magnetic field for the as-prepared composite
magnetic fluids is similar to that only doped with the leading nonmagnetic
microspheres. The relationship between the magnetic-field-induced Faraday effect of
composite magnetic fluids and the concentrations of nonmagnetic microspheres and
pure ferrite magnetic fluids were investigated in the experiment. Results indicate that
the Faraday rotation angle of pure magnetic fluids with different concentrations will
gradually increase until to be saturate with the increase of external magnetic field, and
the magnetic fluid with higher concentration will own the larger Faraday rotation angle;
the Faraday rotation angle of composite magnetic fluid doped silicon dioxide
nonmagnetic microspheres will be larger than the one of the pure magnetic fluid; if the
pure magnetic fluids with some concentration is doped the right amount of nonmagnetic
microspheres, it will increase Faraday effect, or decrease. The relationship between the
transmittance of polarized light through composite magnetic fluid films and the
concentrations of nonmagnetic microspheres and pure ferrite magnetic fluids under
horizontal and longitudinal magnetic field were investigated. Results indicate that under
longitudinal magnetic field, the transmittance increases slowly with the increase of the
magnetic field strength; under horizontal and magnetic field, the transmittance
decreases slowly until to be saturated with the increase of the magnetic field strength;
the transmittance of composite magnetic fluid doped silicon dioxide nonmagnetic
microspheres is larger than the one of its pure magnetic fluid.