Antiferromagnetic domain reconfiguration in embedded LaFeO3 thin film nanostructures

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4578-4583

  Folven, Erik ^a   Tybell, Thomas ^a   Scholl, Andreas ^b   Young, Anthony ^b   Retterer, Scott T ^c   Takamura, Yayoi ^d   Grepstad, Jostein K ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiferromagnetic nanostructures; domain engineering; edge effects; XMLD PEEM

Indexed keywords

AFM; AFM DOMAINS; ANTIFERROMAGNETIC DOMAINS; ANTIFERROMAGNETIC NANOSTRUCTURES; ANTIFERROMAGNETICS; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; DOMAIN CONFIGURATIONS; DOMAIN ENGINEERING; EDGE EFFECT; EPITAXIAL CONSTRAINTS; FILM NANOSTRUCTURES; IN-PLANE; MAGNETIC ORDERS; MATRIX; NANO-ISLANDS; NANO-STRUCTURING; PHOTOEMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SPIN-AXIS; X-RAY MAGNETIC LINEAR DICHROISMS; XMLD-PEEM;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DICHROISM; NANOSTRUCTURES; THIN FILMS;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

FERRIC ION; FERRIC OXIDE; LANTHANUM; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; MAGNETISM; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

FERRIC COMPOUNDS; LANTHANUM; MAGNETICS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 78449311849     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl1025908     Document Type: Article

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