Magnetic force microscope contrast simulation for low-coercive ferromagnetic and superparamagnetic nanoparticles in an external magnetic field

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3961-3963

  Mironov, Victor L ^a   Nikitushkin, Dmitry S ^a   Bins, Chris ^b   Shubin, Andrey B ^c   Zhdan, Peter A ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICS OF MICROSTRUCTURES   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Nanotechnology MDT Company   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Low coercive magnetic nanoparticles; Magnetic force microscopy; Superparamagnetic particles

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; GAUSSIAN; LOW-COERCIVE MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES; MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPES; PROBE PARAMETERS; RING DISTRIBUTIONS; SUPERPARAMAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES; SUPERPARAMAGNETIC PARTICLES;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; PROBES; SUPERPARAMAGNETISM;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 52349121832     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.903300     Document Type: Article

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