Texture assessment of magnetically processed iron titanate

Untextured and highly textured iron titanate specimens were produced by vacuum filtering iron titanate-ethanol suspensions in the absence and presence of a strong magnetic field, respectively, Crystallographic texture was assessed by measuring X-ray pole figures on surfaces parallel and perpendicular to the field direction for several peaks in each system, Morphological texture was assessed by measuring grain size as a function of angle to a reference direction, Results indicate that magnetic field processing imposes a strong, fiber-type texture on the order of 30 times random, with the b-axis parallel to the applied field, Additionally, morphological texturing is absent for the grain sizes studied in this work.