Lowering of the L10 ordering temperature of FePt nanoparticles by He+ ion irradiation

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Wiedwald, U ^a   Klimmer, A ^a   Kern, B ^a   Han, L ^a   Boyen, H G ^a   Ziemann, P ^a   Fauth, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON IRRADIATION; HELIUM; IRON COMPOUNDS; POSITIVE IONS;

DENSELY PACKED NANOPARTICLES; INTERPARTICLE DISTANCES; MAGNETIC PARTICLES; ORDERING TEMPERATURE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33846985927     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2472177     Document Type: Article

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