Z-type hexagonal barium ferrite samples in which a part and/or all of Ba
2+ was substituted for Sr
2+ were prepared by the ceramic method, Ba
3Co
2Fe
24O
41, Ba
1.5Sr
1.5Co
2Fe
24O
41 and Sr
3Co
2Fe
24O
41. The Sr
2+ substitution was found favorable for lowering temperature and oxygen partial pressure in the sintering process. Ba
1.5Sr
1.5Co
2Fe
24O
41 and Sr
3Co
2Fe
24O
41 were obtained at 1523K under
Po2=101.3kPa and at 1483K under
Po
2=21.3kPa, respectively. We investigated crystal and magnetic anisotropies of the materials by measuring the magnetizations and XRD patterns of specimens which were shaped by pressing the sample powders in a magnetic field. Both the results indicated that the magnetic moment lay in the basal plane of the hexagonal structure in Ba
3Co
2Fe
24O
41 and Ba
1.5Sr
1.5Co
2Fe
24O
41, whilst was significantly off from the basal plane in of Sr
3Co
2Fe
24O
41. We measured their powder neutron diffraction patterns and analyzed them by the Rietveld method to estimate site distributions of Sr
2+-Ba
2+ and Fe
3+-Co
2+, and orientation of the magnetic moment. The analyses revealed (1) Sr
2+ preferentially occupied a site out of two sites available for Ba
2+, (2) the magnetic cation distribution in Sr
3Co
2Fe
24O
41 was significantly different from those of the others, and (3) the magnetic moment angle with respect to the c-axis was 52.3° in Sr
3Co
2Fe
24O
41 whilst almost 90° in the others.
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