Determination of the anisotropy constant and saturation magnetization of magnetic nanoparticles from magnetization relaxation curves

Journal of Nanoparticle Research

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 487-497

  Volkov, Ivan ^a   Chukharkin, Maxim ^a   Snigirev, Oleg ^a   Volkov, Alexander ^a   Tanaka, Saburo ^b   Fourie, Coenrad ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Instrumentation; Magnetic nanoparticles; Measurements; N el Arrhenius law; Relaxation phenomena; SQUIDs

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC RELAXATION; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION; SQUIDS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANISOTROPY CONSTANT; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETIZATION RELAXATION CURVES;

NANOPARTICLES;

NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID STATE; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 38349089955     PISSN: 13880764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-007-9282-y     Document Type: Article

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