Low-temperature domain wall pinning in titanomagnetite: Quantitative modeling of multidomain first-order reversal curve diagrams and AC susceptibility

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Church, Nathan ^a   Feinberg, Joshua M ^b   Harrison, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain wall; FORC; Low temperature; Pinning; Susceptibility; Titanomagnetite

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; COERCIVE FORCE; GRAPHIC METHODS; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETOCRYSTALLINE ANISOTROPY; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AC MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; FIRST-ORDER REVERSAL CURVE DIAGRAMS; FORC; LORENTZ TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LOW TEMPERATURES; PINNING; TITANOMAGNETITES;

DOMAIN WALLS;

EID: 84855265822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003538     Document Type: Article

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