Curie temperature reduction in SiO2 -coated ultrafine Fe 3 O4 nanoparticles: Quantitative agreement with a finite-size scaling law

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Jun ^a   Wu, Wei ^a   Zhao, Fan ^a   Zhao, Guo Meng ^a,b  

^a NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE SIZE SCALING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS; MAGNETIC SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; TEMPERATURE REDUCTION; ULTRAFINE; ZERO-DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURIE TEMPERATURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SCALING LAWS; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 79952074472     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3558918     Document Type: Article

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