Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2002-07-05
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
12 pages with 10 figures and 1 table. Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B . Two-column layout
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.67.224416
Based on the high-temperature organometallic route (Sun et al. Science 287, 1989 (2000)), we have synthesized powders containing CoPt_3 single crystals with mean diameters of 3.3(2) nm and 6.0(2) nm and small log-normal widths sigma=0.15(1). In the entire temperature range from 5 K to 400 K, the zero-field cooled susceptibility chi(T) displays significant deviations from ideal superparamagnetism. Approaching the Curie temperature of 450(10) K, the deviations arise from the (mean-field) type reduction of the ferromagnetic moments, while below the blocking temperature T_b, chi(T) is suppressed by the presence of energy barriers, the distributions of which scale with the particle volumes obtained from transmission electron microscopy (TEM). This indication for volume anisotropy is supported by scaling analyses of the shape of the magnetic absorption chi''(T,omega) which reveal distribution functions for the barriers being also consistent with the volume distributions observed by TEM. Above 200 K, the magnetization isotherms M(H,T) display Langevin behavior providing 2.5(1) mu_B per CoPt_3 in agreement with reports on bulk and thin film CoPt_3. The non-Langevin shape of the magnetization curves at lower temperatures is for the first time interpreted as anisotropic superparamagnetism by taking into account an anisotropy energy of the nanoparticles E_A(T). Using the magnitude and temperature variation of E_A(T), the mean energy barriers and 'unphysical' small switching times of the particles obtained from the analyses of chi''(T,omega) are explained. Below T_b hysteresis loops appear and are quantitatively described by a blocking model, which also ignores particle interactions, but takes the size distributions from TEM and the conventional field dependence of E_A into account.
Kötzler Jürgen
Shevchenko E.
Weller Horst
Wiekhorst Frank
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