The effect of matrix and substrate on the coercivity and blocking temperature of self-assembled Ni nanoparticles

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Abiade, Jeremiah T ^a   Oh, Sang Ho ^b   Kumar, Dhananjay ^c,d   Varela, Maria ^d   Pennycook, Stephen ^d   Guo, Haizhong ^e   Gupta, Arunava ^e   Sankar, Jagannathan ^c  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^b Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI)   (South Korea)

^c NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; COERCIVE FORCE; CORUNDUM; FERROMAGNETISM; LASER ABLATION; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NICKEL; NICKEL ALLOYS; NICKEL OXIDE; NITRIDES; ORE TREATMENT; OXIDES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON; SUPERPARAMAGNETISM; THICK FILMS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; TITANIUM NITRIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BLOCKING TEMPERATURES; CERIUM OXIDES; COERCIVITY; FILM MATRIXES; MAGNETIC DATUM; NI NANOPARTICLES; NICKEL NANOPARTICLES; PULSED LASERS; ROOM TEMPERATURES; SAPPHIRE SUBSTRATES; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; SUPERPARAMAGNETIC;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 54049142073     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2992528     Document Type: Article

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