Peculiar magnetism of BiFeO3 nanoparticles with size approaching the period of the spiral spin structure

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Huang, Fengzhen ^a   Wang, Zhijun ^a   Lu, Xiaomei ^a   Zhang, Junting ^a   Min, Kangli ^a   Lin, Weiwei ^b   Ti, Ruixia ^a   Xu, Tingting ^a   He, Ju ^a   Yue, Chen ^a   Zhu, Jinsong ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

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EID: 84885449747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02907     Document Type: Article

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