Size-dependent magnetic properties of single-crystalline multiferroic BiFeO3 nanoparticles

作者：Park Tae Jin; Papaefthymiou Georgia C; Viescas Arthur J; Moodenbaugh Arnold R; Wong Stanislaus S^*

来源：Nano Letters, 2007, 7(3): 766-772.

DOI：10.1021/nl063039w

As-prepared, single-crystalline bismuth ferrite nanoparticles show strong size-dependent magnetic properties that correlate with: (a) increased suppression of the known spiral spin structure (period length of similar to 62 nm) with decreasing nanoparticle size and (b) uncompensated spins and strain anisotropies at the surface. Zero-field-cooled and field-cooled magnetization curves exhibit spin-glass freezing behavior due to a complex interplay between finite size effects, interparticle interactions, and a random distribution of anisotropy axes in our nanoparticle assemblies.

• 出版日期2007-3