Solid State Phenomena Vols. 152-153

Abstract: Iron oxide nanoparticles were synthesis by reverse micelle method. X-ray diffraction technique and vibration sample magnetometer were applied to characterize the produced samples at different conditions and parameters for synthesis route. There is no significant difference between samples prepared at 5°C and room temperature except a better crystalline at room temperature. The molar ratio of water to surfactant (w parameter) and concentration of the salt solution on size and magnetic properties of nanoparticles have been investigated. Increasing w leads to producing particles with larger size i.e. for w=16.83, 11.22, and 5.6, particles size are 15.22, 11.66 and 10.5 nm, respectively. The size of nanoparticles are in the range of 9 to 20 nanometers

Abstract: The model of magnetic structure of Fe/V superlattices is discussed. An individual iron layer of 2 or 3 ML in thickness is assumed to be a XY system. An interlayer interaction through vanadium spacers leads to the appearing of effective field for each iron layer. The infinite and finite superlattices are investigated. Calculations of magnetic structure of Fe2/V12/Fe3/V12 superlattice show that divergence in estimations of the critical temperature obtained by neutron scattering and MOKE is due to inhomogeneity of magnetic moment distribution in the finite superlattice.

Abstract: In order to study the magnetic interactions influence on the relaxation processes in superparamagnetic media, the magnetostatic measurements were carried out for the granular (CoFeB)x-(SiO2)1-x films with x values near percolation threshold. The observed temperature dependences of the coercivity for the samples magnetized along in-plane easy axis have shown two parts linear on with different inclination angles, which cross each other at the blocking temperature (Tb). The first part of the curve, which corresponds to the temperature range below Tb, depends on the measuring time and is related to the thermal activation nature of magnetization reversal process in the blocked superparamagnetic state. Second part of the curve, which corresponds to the temperature range above Tb, is practically independent on the measuring time and is related to existence of correlated state of superparamagnetic grains moments, i.e. to superferromagnetic state. The method of the magnetization reversal curves simulation based on the numerical solving of kinetic equation has been applied to explain the experimental results.

Abstract: The method of SQUID-based relaxometric diagnostics has been applied to the ensembles of non-interacting near-spherical Fe3O4 and Co nanoparticles in order to reveal the behavior of the anisotropy constant upon varying the molecular surrounding of nanoparticles by using different polymer matrices. The transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction techniques have been employed to obtain the structural information about objects of study. The relaxation curves measured with the SQUID-relaxometer in the time range from about 50 s to several tens of seconds after application of a pulse of low dc magnetizing field have been approximated by theoretical dependences calculated within the framework of activation Néel–Arrhenius law with account for the size distribution functions retrieved from TEM data. From results of approximations, the values of anisotropy constant have been determined.

Abstract: Nano-composite structures based on potassium-aluminum-germanium glasses doped simultaneously with Fe and rare earth (RE) oxides - Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, or Yb were studied for the first time. Samples were fabricated by glass technology and subjected to an additional thermal treatment at different regimes. Formation of magnetic nanoparticles was revealed with transmission electron microscope. Morphology and space distribution of nanoparticles in the glasses as well as optical and magneto optical spectra have been shown to be dependent on the additional treatment regime and almost independent of the type of the rare earth element.

Abstract: A two-dimensional Ising-like model for the triangular spin-chain lattice, where each spin chain is treated as a rigid superspin, is proposed to investigate the dynamics of magnetization in frustrated triangular spin-chain systems. The superspins are assumed to interact with the nearest neighbours and external agency (heat reservoir and external magnetic field) that causes them to change their states randomly with time. A probability of a single spin-flip process is assumed in a Glauber-like form. This technique allows describing the steps in the magnetization curves observed in Ca3Co2O6 and their dependence on the magnetic field sweep rate and temperature.

Abstract: Bulk nanocrystalline EuC6 was prepared by the route of high pressure and high temperature synthesis. The material exhibits ferromagnetic behavior at low temperature. Its magnetic moment saturates at 2 K and 6 T to a value s ~0.64 B/f.u. The magnetic susceptbility obeys the Curie-Weiss law above ~60 K and the value of paramagnetic moment and Curie-Weiss temperature were found to be eff = 2.48 B and p = +12.5 K, respectively. Magnetic measurements show that europium atoms in the pressure synthesized EuC6 are not in a purely Eu+2 state but rather in a mixed-valence state.

Abstract: The magnetic phase diagram of Ising spin chains packed into the frustrated triangular lattice is discussed. A structure of a low-temperature phase depends strongly on interactions between the next-to-nearest-neighbor chains because they lift the degeneracy of the triangular AFM Ising model. That is why, a variety of low-temperature phases is observed in CsCoCl3, Ca3Co2O6, and Sr5Rh4O12. On the contrary, the high-temperature phase (honeycomb AFM structure) is unique. The frustrated Ising chain systems demonstrate an unusual and very slow magnetization dynamics. A model of the magnetization dynamics similar to the Glauber theory is developed.

Abstract: Magnetic, magnetoresistive and structural properties of Tb/Ti and Tb/Si nanoscale multilayers prepared by alternative deposition of Tb layers and Ti or Si spacers are comparatively studied. It was concluded that spin disorder scattering is responsible for the negative longitudinal magnetoresistance observed in multilayers of both types.

Abstract: Co/Pt multilayers reside among the best candidates for perpendicular magneto-optic recording. In this work, Co/Pt multilayers were prepared by electron-beam evaporation under ultrahigh vacuum conditions on polyimide. X-ray diffraction measurements revealed the high quality of multilayer stacking. Magneto-optic polar Kerr effect experiments were used in order to obtain magnetization hysteresis loops of the films. We have studied the magnetic-domain morphology on the surface of the films via Magnetic Force Microscopy. The field applied during these measurements was 2.3 kOe oriented perpendicular to the film plane; this field seems to stabilize and enhance out-of-plain stripe domains against in plain domains that may be expected from magnetization curves. Finally, we observed that when the applied field approaches the magnetic saturation field, then the domain morphology turns to be dominated by bubble domains.