Direct observation of magnetic metastability in individual iron nanoparticles

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Balan, Ana ^a   Derlet, Peter M ^a   Rodríguez, Arantxa Fraile ^b   Bansmann, Joachim ^c   Yanes, Rocio ^d   Nowak, Ulrich ^d   Kleibert, Armin ^a   Nolting, Frithjof ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; MAGNETOCRYSTALLINE ANISOTROPY; NANOPARTICLES; SUPERPARAMAGNETISM;

DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; FERROMAGNETIC PARTICLES; IRON NANOPARTICLES; SPONTANEOUS TRANSITION; SUPERPARAMAGNETIC BEHAVIOR; SUPERPARAMAGNETIC STATE; X-RAY MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM; X-RAY-PHOTO-EMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES;

NANOMAGNETICS;

EID: 84896378476     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.107201     Document Type: Article

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