Electronic and magnetic structure of L10-FePt nanoparticle embedded in FePt random alloy

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3103-3105

  Wang, Yang ^a   Stocks, G M ^b   Rusanu, Aurelian ^b   Nicholson, D M C ^b   Eisenbach, Markus ^b   Zhang, Qiming ^c   Liu, J P ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ab initio; FePt; LSMS method; Nanoparticle

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MAGNETIC STRUCTURE; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; QUANTUM THEORY;

AB INITIO; ELECTRONIC INTERACTIONS; LSMS METHOD; RANDOM ALLOY;

IRON ALLOYS;

EID: 34249073232     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.893856     Document Type: Article

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