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Temperature dependence of the effective anisotropy in Ni nanowire arrays

  • Meneses, Fernando;Urreta, Silvia E.;Escrig, Juan;Bercoff, Paula G.
    • Current Applied Physics
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    • v.18 no.11
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    • pp.1240-1247
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    • 2018
  • Magnetic hysteresis in Ni nanowire arrays grown by electrodeposition inside the pores of anodic alumina templates is studied as a function of temperature in the range between 5 K and 300 K. Nanowires with different diameters, aspect ratios, inter-wire distance in the array and surface condition (smooth and rough) are synthesized. These microstructure parameters are linked to the different free magnetic energy contributions determining coercivity and the controlling magnetization reversal mechanisms. Coercivity increases with temperature in arrays of nanowires with rough surfaces and small diameters -33 nm and 65 nm- when measured without removing the alumina template and/or the Al substrate. For thicker wires -200 nm in diameter and relatively smooth surfaces- measured without the Al substrate, coercivity decreases as temperature rises. These temperature dependences of magnetic hysteresis are described in terms of an effective magnetic anisotropy $K_a$, resulting from the interplay of magnetocrystalline, magnetoelastic and shape anisotropies, together with the magnetostatic interaction energy density between nanowires in the array. The experimentally determined coercive fields are compared with results of micromagnetic calculations, performed considering the magnetization reversal mode acting in each studied array and microstructure parameters. A method is proposed to roughly estimate the value of $K_a$ experimentally, from the hysteresis loops measured at different temperatures. These measured values are in agreement with theoretical calculations. The observed temperature dependence of coercivity does not arise from an intrinsic property of pure Ni but from the nanowires surface roughness and the way the array is measured, with or without the alumina template and/or the aluminum support.

A novel approach to fabricate Cu-Ni core-shell microwires

  • Song, Chang-Hyun;Kim, Jong-Woong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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    • 2015.11a
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    • pp.234-234
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    • 2015
  • Metallic microwires are a promising material for use as a filler in various conductive composite structures. Because of their high anisotropy in shape, a low percolation threshold could be achieved, which is beneficial to a low-cost fabrication and better electrical conductivity even under an extremely low solid content. Here we developed a facile method to fabricate the Cu (core)-Ni (shell) microwires.

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Anisotropy of shear strength according to roughness in joint surface (절리면 거칠기에 의한 전단강도 이방성)

  • 이창훈;정교철
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.421-437
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    • 2002
  • In order to quantify the anisotropic properties of rock included joints and shear behavior in joint surface, the mold is Produced for rock joint surface using gypsum Plaster and Peformed for replicated joint models made of cement mortar. Rock sample is measured using mechanical profilometer before testing and their result is expressed quantitatively. The statistical parameters and the fractal dimension by fractal theory for roughness is investigated its coordinate value for numerical process. The shear strength to the shear displacement in low level normal stress ismaintained or increased in most joint models. Their results present that this relationship is depended several roughness properties in joint model for natural rock joint. The relationship between the shear strength and the Properties for profiles estimated by some statistical parameter in roughness has the low correlation and is not constant. The result between the data for direct shear test and using Barton's equation, Barton's equation has not the effectiveness for the effect of anisotropy and has not suitable to recognizing the properties for joint surface. It means that JRC has not the properties of anisotropic rock surface. The fractal dimension is well correlated with the data of direct shear test than those of JRC. New experimental formulae using fractal dimension is comported with the anisotropic properties for direct shear test.

Atomistic simulation of surface passivated wurtzite nanowires: electronic bandstructure and optical emission

  • Chimalgi, Vinay U.;Nishat, Md Rezaul Karim;Yalavarthi, Krishna K.;Ahmed, Shaikh S.
    • Advances in nano research
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.157-172
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    • 2014
  • The three-dimensional Nano-Electronic Modeling toolkit (NEMO 3-D) is an open source software package that allows the atomistic calculation of single-particle electronic states and optical response of various semiconductor structures including bulk materials, quantum dots, impurities, quantum wires, quantum wells and nanocrystals containing millions of atoms. This paper, first, describes a software module introduced in the NEMO 3-D toolkit for the calculation of electronic bandstructure and interband optical transitions in nanowires having wurtzite crystal symmetry. The energetics (Hamiltonian) of the quantum system under study is described via the tight-binding (TB) formalism (including $sp^3$, $sp^3s^*$ and $sp^3d^5s^*$ models as appropriate). Emphasis has been given in the treatment of surface atoms that, if left unpassivated, can lead to the creation of energy states within the bandgap of the sample. Furthermore, the developed software has been validated via the calculation of: a) modulation of the energy bandgap and the effective masses in [0001] oriented wurtzite nanowires as compared to the experimentally reported values in bulk structures, and b) the localization of wavefunctions and the optical anisotropy in GaN/AlN disk-in-wire nanowires.

Growth of Textured CoFe2O4 Thin Films on Platinized Silicon Prepared by a Sol-Gel Method

  • Mustaqima, Millaty;Lee, Min Young;Kim, Deok Hyeon;Lee, Bo Wha;Liu, Chunli
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.227-231
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    • 2014
  • We fabricated textured polycrystalline $CoFe_2O_4$ thin films on $Pt(111)/TiO_2/SiO_2/Si$ substrate through a sol-gel method. We varied the thickness of the films, by using precursor solutions with different concentrations of 0.1, 0.2, and 0.3 M, and by depositing 5, 8, or 10 layers on the substrate by spin-coating. X-ray diffraction spectra indicated that when the precursor concentration of the solution was higher than 0.1 M, the spin-coated films were preferentially oriented in the <111> direction. Inspection of the surface morphology by scanning electron microscopy revealed that $CoFe_2O_4$ thin films prepared with 0.2 M solution and 5-time spin-coatings had smoother surface, as compared to the other conditions. Each coating had an average thickness of about 50 nm. The magnetic properties measured by vibrating sample magnetometer showed magnetic anisotropy, as evidenced from the difference in the in-plane and out-of-plane hysteresis loops, which we attributed to the textured orientation of the $CoFe_2O_4$ thin films.

Exponent Study of the p($2{\times}1$) Phase on an O/W(110) Surface (O/W(110) 표면의 p($2{\times}1$) 구조의 임계지수 연구)

  • 백두현;정석민;정진욱
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.88-95
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    • 1992
  • Abstract-Using a high resolution low energy electron diffraction(HRLEED), we report an exponent study of 2d continuous phase transition from an ordered ~ ( 2 x 1 )ox ygen overlayer on a W(110) surface. Temperature dependence of a (% 0) superlattice diffraction spot, characteristic of the p(2X 1) structure, shows power-law like divergence of the susceptibility and the fluctuation correlation length at T,=708.765 K. By fitting the intensities as well as the line-shapes, we obtained exponents P=0.19* 0.05, y=1.48+ 0.34, v= 1.23i 0.27 and q=0.38+ 0.12. The non-universal character of the exponents are understood in terms of a 2d XY model with cubic anisotropy as suggested previously.

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FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE STUDIES IN AMORPHOUS Co-Zr FILMS

  • Kim, Y.Y.;Baek, J.S.;Lee, S.J.;Lim, W.Y.;Yu, S.C.;Lee, S.H.;Jang, P.W.
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.5 no.5
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    • pp.528-532
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    • 1995
  • Ferromagnetic resonance experiments have been used to investigate the magnetic properties of amorphous $Co_{89.5}Zr_{10.5}$ thin films deposited by DC magnetron sputtering method. In the thickness range from $350\;{\AA}$ to $3,200\;{\AA}$, measurements were carried out in a static magnetic field perpendicular and parallel to the film plane and in a conventional 9.44 GHz spectrometer at room temperature. The ferromagnetic resonance spectra by the field perpendicular to the film plane showed standing spin wave. The spacing and the relative intensities between the various spin wave resonance peaks are analysed considering surface magnetic anisotropy. The surface magnetic anisotropy constant ($K_{so},\;K_{sd}$) of amorphous $Co_{89.5}Zr_{10.5}$ thin films are $0.02\;erg/\textrm{cm}^2$ and $0.55\;erg/\textrm{cm}^2$ respectively regardless of the film thickness except for $3,200\;{\AA}$ film. In case of $3,200\;{\AA}$ these values are $0.46\;erg/\textrm{cm}^2$ and $0.55\;erg/\textrm{cm}^2$ respectively.

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