Numerical simulation of field-cooled and zero field-cooled processes for assembly of superparamagnetic nanoparticles with uniaxial anisotropy

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Usov, N A ^a  

^a PUSHKOV INSTITUTE OF TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED FIELD; APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELDS; AVERAGE DIAMETER; BLOCKING TEMPERATURE; EFFECTIVE ANISOTROPY CONSTANT; KINETIC RATE EQUATION; LARGE DIAMETER; LOG-NORMAL; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MAGNETIC FIELD DEPENDENCES; MONOTONIC DECREASE; NONMONOTONIC; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ORIENTED ASSEMBLY; POPULATION NUMBERS; POTENTIAL WELLS; SUPERPARAMAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES; UNIAXIAL ANISOTROPY; VOLUME DISTRIBUTIONS; ZERO FIELDS;

ANISOTROPY; FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOPARTICLES; POPULATION STATISTICS; SUPERPARAMAGNETISM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 79551661660     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3536632     Document Type: Article

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