Beating the superparamagnetic limit with exchange bias

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6942, 2003, Pages 850-853

  Skumryev, Vassil ^a   Stoyanov, Stoyan ^a   Zhang, Yong ^a   Hadjipanayis, George ^a   Givord, Dominique ^b   Nogués, Josep ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; FERROMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIZATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PARAMAGNETIC MATERIALS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

EXCHANGE BIASING;

SUPERPARAMAGNETISM;

NANOPARTICLE;

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; MAGNETISM; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0038480251     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01687     Document Type: Article

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