Self-Assembly of Nanometer-Scale Magnetic Dots with Narrow Size Distributions on an Insulating Substrate

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 23, 2002, Pages

  Gai, Zheng ^a,b   Wu, Biao ^a,c   Pierce, J P ^a,d   Farnan, G A ^a   Shu, Dajun ^e,f   Wang, Mu ^e,f   Zhang, Zhenyu ^a,e   Shen, Jian ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^f NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; NUCLEATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRAIN; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

INSULATING SUBSTRATE; LATERAL SIZE; MAGNETIC DOTS; MEAN FIELD THEORY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0037011726     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.235502     Document Type: Article

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