Exchange-coupled nanocomposite magnets by nanoparticle self-assembly

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6914, 2002, Pages 395-398

  Zeng, Hao ^a,b   Li, Jing ^c   Liu, J P ^b   Wang, Zhong L ^c   Sun, Shouheng ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SPUTTERING;

EXCHANGE-COUPLING;

MAGNETS;

NANOPARTICLE;

MAGNETIC PROPERTY; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; RATING SCALE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 2242445275     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01208     Document Type: Article

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