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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
physics and astronomy
Finite size effects in antiferromagnetic nio nanoparticles
Physical Review Letters, Volume 79, No. 7, Year 1997
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Description
Antiferromagnetic NiO nanoparticles exhibit anomalous magnetic properties, such as large moments, and coercivities and loop shifts of up to 10 kOe. This behavior is difficult to understand in terms of 2-sublattice antiferromagnetic ordering which is accepted for bulk NiO. Numerical modeling of spin configurations in these nanoparticles yields 8-, 6-, or 4-sublattice configurations, indicating a new finite size effect, in which the reduced coordination of surface spins causes a fundamental change in the magnetic order throughout the particle. The relatively weak coupling between the sublattices allows a variety of reversal paths for the spins upon cycling the applied field, resulting in large coercivities and loop shifts. © 1997 The American Physical Society.
Authors & Co-Authors
Kodama, Richard H.
United States, La Jolla
University of California, San Diego
Makhlouf, Salah A.
United States, La Jolla
University of California, San Diego
Egypt, Asyut
Faculty of Science
Berkowitz, Ami E.
United States, La Jolla
University of California, San Diego
Statistics
Citations: 704
Authors: 3
Affiliations: 2
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.1393
ISSN:
00319007
e-ISSN:
10797114