A micromagnetic investigation of magnetite grains in the form of Platonic polyhedra with surface roughness

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Williams, W ^a   Muxworthy, A R ^b   Evans, M E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

magnetite; micromagnetism; modeling

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COERCIVE FORCE; GEOMETRY; HYSTERESIS; IRON ORES; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MORPHOLOGY; REMANENCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COERCIVITIES; CONVEX POLYHEDRONS; MAGNETITE PARTICLES; MICROMAGNETIC CALCULATIONS; MICROMAGNETICS; MICROMAGNETISM; PSEUDO SINGLE DOMAINS; SHAPE ANISOTROPY; SINGLE DOMAINS; STONER-WOHLFARTH; SURFACE IRREGULARITIES;

MAGNETITE;

GRAIN SIZE; HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MAGNETITE; MODELING; MORPHOLOGY; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 80055011526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003560     Document Type: Article

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