Reply to ``Comment on `Colossal dielectric and magnetodielectric effect in Er2O3 nanoparticles embedded in a SiO2 glass matrix'''
Abstract
In our earlier paper [Mukherjee , Phys. Rev. BPRBMDO1098-012110.1103/PhysRevB.82.104107 82, 104107 (2010)], we concentrated mainly on lower calcined transparent monolithic glass samples (particle size <10 nm) where interesting high-k values with diffuse phase transition (DPT) and magnetodielectric (MD) behavior were observed. The Comment seems to focus on the sample calcined at 1200 ∘C (particle size >40 nm), where the dielectric value is observed without DPT behavior. In this Reply we argue that, contrary to the conclusion of Hreniak , the disappearance of the MD effect is not only due to structural reorganization via crystallization of a different phase, but very much depends on particle size.
- Publication:
-
Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- August 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.056103
- Bibcode:
- 2011PhRvB..84e6103M
- Keywords:
-
- 77.55.Nv;
- 77.80.bn;
- 85.30.Tv;
- Field effect devices