Highly Transparent γ-Fe2O3/Vycor-Glass Magnetic Nanocomposites Exhibiting Faraday Rotation

Advanced Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 1809-1812

  Zayat, Marcos ^a   Del Monte, Francisco ^a   Del Puerto Morales, María ^a   Rosa, Gregorio ^b   Guerrero, Héctor ^b   Serna, Carlos J ^a   Levy, David ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Institute Nacional de Tecnica Aeroes Pacial   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FARADAY EFFECT; GLASS; HEAT TREATMENT; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IRON OXIDES; LIGHT MODULATORS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SILICA GEL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL HOMOGENEITY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0345293128     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200305436     Document Type: Article

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