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Motivated in part by experiments performed by M.H. Pan et al. (nanoletters, v.5, p 83, 2005), we have undertaken a theoretical study of the the magnetic properties of two-monolayer thick Co nanoplatelets with an equilateral triangular…
Frequency dependant complex magnetic permeability is used to understand RF-microwave behaviour of magnetic nanoparticles in the frequency range 250 MHz to 3 GHz. The stable dispersions of Fe3O4 nanoparticles with mean size varying between…
ZnO nanoparticles with Wurtzite structure were prepared by chemical methods at low temperature in aqueous solution. Nanoparticles are in the range from about 10 to 30 nm. Ferromagnetic properties were observed from 2 K to room temperature…
Recent experimental and theoretical studies show that the switching behavior of magnetic nanoparticles can be well controlled by external time-dependent magnetic fields. In this work, we inspect theoretically the influence of the…
The temperature dependence of magnetization in ferromagnetic nanostructures (e.g., nanoparticles or nanoclusters) is usually analyzed by means of an empirical extension of the Bloch law sufficiently flexible for a good fitting to the…
Nanocomposites comprised of insulated magnetic single-domain particles are promising candidates for high-frequency, eddy current free, soft magnetic materials, but tend to suffer from low magnetic susceptibility ($<20$). Particle alignment…
A direct probe of superparamagnetism was used to determine the complete anisotropy energy distribution of Co nanoparticle films. The films were composed of self-assembled lattices of uniform Co nanoparticles 3 nm or 5 nm in diameter, and a…
The physical properties of magnetic nanoparticles have been investigated with focus on the influence of dipolar interparticle interaction. For weakly coupled nanoparticles, thermodynamic perturbation theory is employed to derive analytical…
We demonstrate directional dependence of the self-modification of internal mesospin textures in magnetic metamaterials, arising from the coupling of the atomic- and mesoscopic length-scales. Dressing the mesospins in different directions…
A set of thin film Mn$_x$Si$_{1-x}$ alloy samples with different manganese concentration x = 0.44 - 0.63 grown by the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) method onto the Al$_2$O$_3$(0001) substrate was investigated in the temperature range 4 -…
There is so far no clear-cut experimental analysis that can determine whether dipole-dipole interactions enhance or reduce the blocking temperature $T_{B}$ of nanoparticle assemblies. It seems that the samples play a central role in the…
The magnetic behaviour of nanoparticles of antiferromagnetic ferritin has been investigated by 57Fe Mossbauer absorption spectroscopy and magnetisation measurements, in the temperature range 2.5K-250K and with magnetic fields up to 7T.…
The dynamic magnetic properties of Ni nanoparticles diluted in an amorphous SiO2 matrix prepared from a modified sol-gel method have been studied by the frequency f dependence of the ac magnetic susceptibility \c{hi}(T). For samples with…
The theory of size effects of the properties of nanocrystalline ferroelectric ceramic or nanoparticle powder allowing for surface tension and depolarization field is proposed. Surface tension was included into free energy functional and…
The saturation magnetization (M_s), antiferromagnetic transition point (T_N), and the off-center displacements of Bi and Fe ions have been measured as a function of particle size in nanoscale BiFeO3. T_N decreases down to ~550 K for…
We develop and validate a computational approach to nanomagnets. It is built on the spin wave approximation to a Heisenberg ferromagnet whose parameters can be calculated from a first principles theory (e.g. density functional theory). The…
A detailed magnetization study for the novel FeSe superconductor is carried out to investigate the behavior of the intrinsic magnetic susceptibility $\chi$ in the normal state with temperature and under hydrostatic pressure. The temperature…
The purpose of this paper is to study the thermodynamic equilibrium properties of a collection of non-interacting three-dimensional (3D) magnetically anisotropic nanoparticles in the light of classical statistical physics. Pertaining to the…
We study the giant magnetoresistance of nanogranular magnets in the presence of an external magnetic field and finite temperature. We show that the magnetization of arrays of nanogranular magnets has hysteretic behaviour at low temperatures…
We report on temperature-dependent size and anisotropy of the Fermi pockets in graphite revealed by magnetotransport measurements. The magnetoresistances obtained in fields along the c-axis obey an extended Kohler's rule, with the carrier…