Domain structures in single crystal magnetite below the Verwey transition as observed with a low-temperature magnetic force microscope

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 2851-2854

  Moloni, Katerina ^a,c   Moskowitz, Bruce M ^b   Dan Dahlberg, E ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COOLING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; NUCLEATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TWINNING; CRYSTALS; DOMAIN WALLS; MAGNETISM; MAGNETITE; TEMPERATURE; WALL FLOW;

DOMAIN STRUCTURES; LOW TEMPERATURE MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPE; LOW TEMPERATURE MONOCLINIC PHASE; MAGNETOCRYSTALLINE SYMMETRY; VERWEY TRANSITION;

MAGNETITE; MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

DOMAIN STRUCTURE; LOW TEMPERATURE MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPE; MAGNETITE; VERWEY TRANSITION;

DIFFERENT DOMAINS; DOMAIN PATTERN; DOMAIN STRUCTURE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MAGNETOCRYSTALLINE; MONOCLINIC PHASE; THERMAL DEPENDENCES; VERWEY TRANSITIONS;

EID: 0030265191     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00962     Document Type: Article

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