Bistable magnetoresistance switching in exchange-coupled CoFe 2O4-Fe3O4 binary nanocrystal superlattices by self-assembly and thermal annealing

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1478-1486

  Chen, Jun ^a   Ye, Xingchen ^b   Oh, Soong Ju ^a   Kikkawa, James M ^b   Kagan, Cherie R ^a,b   Murray, Christopher B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

binary nanocrystal superlattices; BNSLs; exchange coupling; magnetic nanocrystal; magnetoresistance; self assembly

Indexed keywords

BISTABLES; BNSLS; BUILDING BLOCKES; INTER-PARTICLE COUPLING; INTERFACIAL ASSEMBLY; MAGNETIC NANOCRYSTALS; MAGNETIZATION SWITCHING; MODULAR APPROACH; MULTICOMPONENTS; NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SWITCHING BEHAVIORS; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

ANNEALING; EXCHANGE COUPLING; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETORESISTANCE; METAMATERIALS; NANOCRYSTALS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SWITCHING;

SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 84874427031     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3052617     Document Type: Article

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