Partial cationic inversion-induced magnetic hardening of densely packed 23-nm-sized nanocrystallite-interacting nickel ferrite electrospun nanowires

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 23, 2013, Pages

  Li, Jian Min ^a   Zeng, Xian Lin ^a   Xu, Zhu An ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAIN-OF-SPHERES; COERCIVE FIELD; CRITICAL RADIUS; MAGNETIC HARDENING; NANO-GRANULAR; NICKEL FERRITE; SHAPE ANISOTROPY; SINGLE DOMAINS;

COERCIVE FORCE; HARDENING; NANOWIRES; NICKEL;

NANOCRYSTALLITES;

EID: 84889867588     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4840320     Document Type: Article

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