Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2008-11-21
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
26 pages, 8 figures. In press in Phys. Rev. B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.79.094419
In the present work, we investigate the magnetic properties of ferrimagnetic and noninteracting maghemite (g-Fe2O3) hollow nanoparticles obtained by the Kirkendall effect. From the experimental characterization of their magnetic behavior, we find that polycrystalline hollow maghemite nanoparticles are characterized by low superparamagnetic-to-ferromagnetic transition temperatures, small magnetic moments, significant coercivities and irreversibility fields, and no magnetic saturation on external magnetic fields up to 5 T. These results are interpreted in terms of the microstructural parameters characterizing the maghemite shells by means of an atomistic Monte Carlo simulation of an individual spherical shell model. The model comprises strongly interacting crystallographic domains arranged in a spherical shell with random orientations and anisotropy axis. The Monte Carlo simulation allows discernment between the influence of the structure polycrystalline and its hollow geometry, while revealing the magnetic domain arrangement in the different temperature regimes.
Alivisatos Paul A.
Balcells Lluis
Cabot Andreu
Iglesias Oscar
Labarta Amilcar
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