Planar magnetic colloidal crystals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 5464-5467

  Wen, Weijia ^a   Zhang, Lingyun ^a   Sheng, Ping ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COLLOIDS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

COATED MAGNETIC MICROSPHERES; LATTICE INSTABILITY; MAGNETIC COLLOIDAL CRYSTALS; MAGNETIC PARTICLES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 0034506807     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5464     Document Type: Article

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