Room temperature ferromagnetic V-doped MgO nanoparticles

Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 233-237

  Nagar, Sandeep ^a   Jayakumar, O D ^b   Belova, Lyubov ^a   Rao, K V ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

d0 Magnetism; Doping; Magnetic Nanoparticles; MgO; Oxides

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871549918     PISSN: 21585849     EISSN: 21585857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/mex.2012.1076     Document Type: Article

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