%0 Journal Article %T Morfolog¨ªa, estructura y propiedades magn¨¦ticas de esferas producidas por plasma de Ar-He %A Perera-Mercado %A Y. A. %A Reyes-Sandoval %A E. %A Lozano-Estrada %A M. %A Betancourt-Galindo %A R. %A Saucedo-Salazar %A E. M %J Superficies y vac¨ªo %D 2012 %I Sociedad Mexicana de Ciencia y Tecnologia de Superficies y Materiales %X magnetic spheres were produced by adaptating conventional ar-he thermal spray processes. this process is based on the projection of different iron oxides-rich powder precursors which are common byproducts of diverse metallurgical industrial activities. projected particles are trapped inside a special capturing device. prior to the plasma processing, precursor materials were milled in order to homogenize their initial particle sizes. the produced magnetic particles showed a spherical morphology with different superficial structures. their composition includes a mixture of crystalline phases that could be indexed to the magnetite (fe3o4), maghemite (gamma-fe3o4) and other phases depending on chemical composition of used precursor. complete characterization of magnetic spheres was achieved by using several analysis techniques such as: x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscopy (sem), field emission scanning electron microscopy (fesem), x-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (eds) and vibrational sample magnetometry (vsm). %K plasma ar-he %K b.o.f. slags %K magnetic spheres. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1665-35212012000200001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en