Free-standing and single-crystalline Fe 1-xMn xSi nanowires with room-temperature ferromagnetism and excellent magnetic response

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 4884-4891

  Hung, Min Hsiu ^a   Wang, Chiu Yen ^a   Tang, Jianshi ^b   Lin, Ching Chun ^a   Hou, Te Chien ^a   Jiang, Xiaowei ^b   Wang, Kang L ^b   Chen, Lih Juann ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ferromagnetic; magnetic semiconductor; magnetoresistance; nanowires; silicide; spin disorder

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION METHODS; FERROMAGNETIC; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; HOST MATRICES; HYPERBRANCHED; MAGNETIC CHARACTERISTIC; MAGNETIC RESPONSE; METAL SITES; MN IONS; ONE STEP; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ROOM-TEMPERATURE FERROMAGNETISM; SI NANOWIRE; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SPIN INTERACTION; SPIN-DISORDER; SUB-LATTICES; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TERNARY SILICIDES;

ASPECT RATIO; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; MAGNETOELECTRONICS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MANGANESE; NANOWIRES; SILICIDES; SILICON;

FERROMAGNETISM;

METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MAGNET; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETS; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84862894678     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300344k     Document Type: Article

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