Stable magnetostructural coupling with tunable magnetoresponsive effects in hexagonal ferromagnets

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Liu, Enke ^a   Wang, Wenhong ^a   Feng, Lin ^a   Zhu, Wei ^a   Li, Guijiang ^a   Chen, Jinglan ^a   Zhang, Hongwei ^a   Wu, Guangheng ^a   Jiang, Chengbao ^b   Xu, Huibin ^b   De Boer, Frank ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTENITE; IRON; MARTENSITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COVALENT BOND; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYSTERESIS; MAGNET; MAGNETIC FIELD; PHASE TRANSITION; STOICHIOMETRY; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 84867538497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1868     Document Type: Article

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