Friday 29 July 2011

Vortex control in PacMan nanodots

Control of vortex chirality and polarity in magnetic nanodots with broken rotational symmetry.
V. Cambel, and G. Karapetrov
Phys. Rev. B 84, 014424 (2011)
Hysteresis curve of a “Pac-Man”-like Py nanodot with an outer diameter of 70 nm, an inner diameter of 46 nm,
and a thickness of 40 nm.

SG behavior and Kondo effect

Kondo effect and spin-glass behavior of dilute iron clusters in silver films.
W. T. Herrera, Y. T. Xing, S. M. Ramos, P. Munayco, M. B. Fontes, E. M. Baggio-Saitovitch, and F. J. Litterst
PRB 84, 014430 (2011)
Onset temperature Ton for spin freezing, derived from resistivity data, for samples prepared at 285 K.

EB coupling in individual Co clusters

Bistable Coupling States Measured on Single Co Nanoclusters Deposited on CoO(111).
D. Le Roy, R. Morel, S. Pouget, A. Brenac, L. Notin, T. Crozes, and W. Wernsdorfer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 057204 (2011)
Switching curves at 40 mK for one single nanocluster, after three successive coolings. The
dashed line is the easy axis direction and the dot indicates the bias field. Also shown is the CoO[10-1]direction.

Reorientation transition in NiO film

Continuous spin reorientation transition in epitaxial antiferromagnetic NiO thin films.
J. Li, E. Arenholz, Y. Meng, A. Tan, J. Park, E. Jin, H. Son, J. Wu, C. A. Jenkins, A. Scholl, H. W. Zhao, Chanyong Hwang, and Z. Q. Qiu
Phys. Rev. B 84, 012406 (2011)
(a) Schematic drawing of the measurement condition. (b) XAS from the Ni L2 edge and Fe magnetic hysteresis
loops from the Fe XMCD measurement. (c) L2 ratio versus the polarization angle. The result shows that the NiO in-plane spin component decreases to zero as the MgO thickness increases to 35 ML.

Ferromagnetism of free clusters

Metastability of Free Cobalt and Iron Clusters: A Possible Precursor to Bulk Ferromagnetism.
Xiaoshan Xu, Shuangye Yin, Ramiro Moro, Anthony Liang, John Bowlan, and Walt A. de Heer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 057203 (2011)
P(M) for Co and Fe clusters for various thermalization conditions. Amplitudes are represented in color (blue:
low; red: high).

Tuesday 26 July 2011

Quantum effects in magnetoreception

Sustained Quantum Coherence and Entanglement in the Avian Compass.
Erik M. Gauger, Elisabeth Rieper, John J. L. Morton, Simon C. Benjamin, and Vlatko Vedral
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 040503 (2011)
According to the RP model, the back of the bird’s eye contains numerous molecules for magnetoreception. These molecules give rise to a pattern, discernible to the bird, which indicates the orientation of the field.

Self-assembly of NPs: A Review

Directed self-assembly of Nanoparticles.
Marek Grzelczak, Jan Vermant, Eric M. Furst,, and Luis M. Liz-Marzán
ACS Nano 7, 3591 (2010)

Monday 25 July 2011

Magnetization relaxation from firts principles

First-principles calculations of magnetization relaxation in pure Fe, Co, and Ni with frozen thermal lattice disorder.

Yi Liu, Anton A. Starikov, Zhe Yuan, and Paul J. Kelly
Phys. Rev. B 84, 014412 (2011)
Calculated Gilbert damping and resistivity for bcc Fe, hcp Co, and fcc Ni as functions of the rms displacements
measured in units of the corresponding lattice constants, a.

Friday 22 July 2011

Tunable disorder in magnonics

Magnonic Crystal as a Medium with Tunable Disorder on a Periodical Lattice.
J. Ding, M. Kostylev, and A. O. Adeyeye
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 047205 (2011)
(a): SEM image of the CPW line and of two nanowires arrays (inset). (b): SEM image of the alternating
width nanowire array (w1= 260 nm, w2= 220 nm and edgeto-edge separation g = 60 nm). (c): Full loop 2D FMR absorption
spectra for the array. (d): Normalized M-H loop for the array.

Bloch points

Magnetization structure of a Bloch point singularity.
R.G. Elías and A. Verga
EJPB 82, 159 (2011)
Comparison of the Bloch point evolution with fixed magnetization at the surface of a sphere of radius
larger than the exchange length R = 20 nm; times are: (left) t = 0, (middle) t = 80 ps, and (right) t = 160 ps.

Thursday 21 July 2011

Co NPs capped with Pt

Tuning the magnetic properties of Co nanoparticles by Pt capping.
A. Ebbing, O. Hellwig, L. Agudo, G. Eggeler, and O. Petracic
Phys. Rev. B 84, 012405 (2011)
ZFC/FC in-plane measurements of M vs T at the same field of H = 20 Oe for samples with constant tCo = 0.66 nm and various tPt = 0, . . ., 0.53 nm as indicated in the legend.

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On the magnetostatics of chains of magnetic nanoparticles.
C. Phatak , R. Pokharel , M. Beleggia , M. De Graef
JMMM, 323, 2912 (2011)
Schematic showing the geometry of straight chains of cubes (a),spheres(b),cylinders(c),bi-cones(d),octahedra(e),tetrahedra(f),andcuboctahedra (g);(h)shows a schematic of a bent chain o fparticles.

Decoherence in molecular manets

Decoherence in crystals of quantum molecular magnets.
S. Takahashi, I. S. Tupitsyn, J. van Tol, C. C. Beedle, D. N. Hendrickson & P. C. E. Stamp
Nature 476, 76 (2011)
Calculated contributions to the decoherence coming from the
coupling to nuclear spins, phonons and magnons. a, The three individual
contributions which sum to give the dimensionless decoherence rate cw5B/
T2Do, as a function of the qubit splitting in the case H\E^x.


Tuesday 19 July 2011

Chain model for DW

Disordered chain model of cross tie wall spacing.
Zoe Budrikis, R. L. Stamps, Nils Wiese, and John Chapman
Phys. Rev. B 84, 024423 (2011)
Images generated in OOMMF of the magnetization configurations of cross tie domain walls (a) in equilibrium
spacing and (b) with one vortex displaced.

2D dipolar frustrated FM

Inverse transition in a two-dimensional dipolar frustrated ferromagnet.
Sergio A. Cannas, Marianela Carubelli, Orlando V. Billoni, and Daniel A. Stariolo
Phys. Rev. B 84, 014404 (2011)
Monte Carlo phase diagram h vs temperature
for the dipolar Heisenberg model with δ = 3 and η = 8.

Deppining of DW

Static and dynamic depinning processes of a magnetic domain wall from a pinning potential.
Ung-Hwan Pi,* Young-Jin Cho, Ji-Young Bae, Sung-Chul Lee, and Sunae Seo,
Phys. Rev. B 84, 024426 (2011)
Color-coded histogram of AMR difference between before and after the application of the nucleation current
pulse, i.e., Delta=AMR (after current pulse), − AMR (before current pulse).

Spin transfer from first principles

Nonlinear bias dependence of spin-transfer torque from atomic first principles.
Xingtao Jia, Ke Xia, Youqi Ke, and Hong Guo
Phys. Rev. B 84, 014401 (2011)
Sketch of a Fe/MgO/Fe(001) MTJ having seven MgO layers.

Interacting AFM particles

Slow dynamics of interacting antiferromagnetic nanoparticles.
Sunil K. Mishra and V. Subrahmanyam
Phys. Rev. B 84, 024429 (2011)

A comparison of the ZFC curves for all the interacting cases.

Saturday 16 July 2011

LaFeO3 NPs

Surface and shape anisotropy effects in LaFeO3 nanoparticles.
Dan Wang and Menglian Gong
JAP 109, 114304 (2011)
Hysteresis loops for the LaFeO3 nanospheres and nanotubes measured
at 2 K (a) and 293 K (b). The inset shows the enlargement of the low field data.

Friday 15 July 2011

FeO/Au NPs

Iron oxide nanoparticles coated with gold: Enhanced magnetic moment due to interfacial effects.
S. Banerjee, S. O. Raja, M. Sardar, N. Gayathri, B. Ghosh, and A. Dasgupta
JAP 109, 123902 (2011)

TEM of the (a) Sample B (Low-Au) and (b-d) Sample C (High-Au)
nanocomposites. Core(Fe3O4)-shell(Au) structures seen in Sample C
are shown in (c) and (d).

Review on Magnetic nanostructures

Magnetic nanostructures for advanced technologies: fabrication, metrology and challenges.
June W Lau and Justin M Shaw
J. Phys. D 44, 303001 (2011)



X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy of Magnetic Structures

X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy of Magnetic Structures.
Joshua J. Turner, Xiaojing Huang, Oleg Krupin, Keoki A. Seu, Daniel Parks, Stephen Kevan, Enju Lima, Kim Kisslinger, Ian McNulty, Richard Gambino, Stephane Mangin, Sujoy Roy, and Peter Fischer
PRL 107, 033904 (2011)

Spintronics with molecular nanomagnets

Graphene Spintronic Devices with Molecular Nanomagnets.
Andrea Candini, Svetlana Klyatskaya, Mario Ruben, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, and Marco Affronte
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Thursday 14 July 2011

Colloidal self-assembly to 3D nanolithography

From Two-Dimensional Colloidal Self-Assembly to Three-Dimensional Nanolithography.
C.-H. Chang, L. Tian, W. R. Hesse, H. Gao, H. J. Choi, J.-G. Kim, M. Siddiqui, and G. Barbastathis
Nano Lett. 11, 2533 (2011)

FeO NPs for Hyperthermia

Water-Dispersible Sugar-Coated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles. An Evaluation of their Relaxometric and Magnetic Hyperthermia Properties.
Lenaic Lartigue, Claudia Innocenti, Thangavel Kalaivani, Azzam Awwad, Maria del Mar Sanchez Duque, Yannick Guari, Joulia Larionova, Christian Guérin, Jean-Louis Georges Montero, Véronique Barragan-Montero, Paolo Arosio, Alessandro Lascialfari, Dante Gatteschi, and Claudio Sangregorio
JACS 133, 10459 (2011)

Self assemby of FeO Nanocubes

Shape Induced Symmetry in Self-Assembled Mesocrystals of Iron Oxide Nanocubes.
Sabrina Disch, Erik Wetterskog, Raphael P. Hermann, German Salazar-Alvarez, Peter Busch, Thomas Brückel, Lennart Bergström, and Saeed Kamali
Nano Lett. 11, 1651 (2011)
Grazing incidence small-angle scattering and electron microscopy have been used to show for the first time that nonspherical nanoparticles can assemble into highly ordered body-centered tetragonal mesocrystals.

Hamaker Constants of Iron Oxide NPs

Hamaker Constants of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles.
Bertrand Fauré, Germán Salazar-Alvarez, and Lennart Bergström
Langmuir 27, 8659 (2011)

Tumor targeting with NPs

Nanoparticles that communicate in vivo to amplify tumour targeting.
Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Ji-Ho Park, Kevin Y. Lin, Neetu Singh, Christian Schwöppe, Rolf Mesters,Wolfgang E. Berdel, Erkki Ruoslahti, Michael J. Sailor and Sangeeta N. Bhatia
Nature Mater. 10, 545 (2011)
Nanoparticles communication for amplified tumour targeting.
a, Schematic representation of communication between system
components. Tumour-targeted signalling NPs broadcast the tumour
location to receiving NPs in circulation.

Bidimensional spin ice

Out of equilibrium dynamics in the bidimensional spin-ice model.
Demian Levis and Leticia F. Cugliandolo
ArXiv: 1107.2528

Wednesday 13 July 2011

Iron Oxides: A Review of applications

 The Iron Oxides Strike Back: From Biomedical Applications to Energy Storage Devices and Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting.
Pedro Tartaj , Maria P. Morales , Teresita Gonzalez-Carreño , Sabino Veintemillas-Verdaguer , and Carlos J. Serna
Adv. Materials ASAP (2011)

Electronic structure calculations of oxides

Structure and Properties of Functional Oxide Thin Films: Insights From Electronic-Structure Calculations.
James M. Rondinelli and Nicola A. Spaldin
Adv. Mater. 23, 3363 (2011)


Magnetization dynamics in Co islands

Atomistic magnetization dynamics in nanostructures based on first principles calculations: application to Co
nanoislands on Cu(111).
D Böttcher, A Ernst and J Henk

J. Phys. Cond. Matter 23, 296003 (2011)
Temporal evolution of the magnetic structure in 2 ML-thick Co islands on Cu(111) which is prepared in a random
state. Top Co layer (left column) and the subsurface Co layer (right column) at times t = 0, 52, 100, 152, 300, and 400 fs
(from top to bottom).

Dipolar Heisenberg thin film in a magnetic field

Effects of a perpendicular magnetic field in the dipolar Heisenberg model with dominant exchange interaction.
A M Abu-Labdeh, A B MacIsaac and K De’Bell
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 23, 296005 (2011)
The magnetic phase diagram as a function of κ/g and T/g.

Amorphous ferrimagnetic alloys

Crystallographically amorphous ferrimagnetic alloys: Comparing a localized atomistic spin model with experiments.
Thomas A. Ostler, Richard F. L. Evans, Roy W. Chantrell, Unai Atxitia, Oksana Chubykalo-Fesenko, Ilie Radu, Radu Abrudan, Florin Radu, Arata Tsukamoto, A. Itoh, Andrei Kirilyuk, Theo Rasing, and Alexey Kimel
Phys. Rev B 84, 024407 (2011)
Coercive field (points) for various RE amounts.  Results show good
qualitative agreement with the experimental results (Fig. 3), with the
divergence representing the magnetization compensation point.

Super domains in antidot lattices

Classification of super domains and super domain walls in permalloy antidot lattices
X. K. Hu, S. Sievers, A. Müller, V. Janke, and H. W. Schumacher
Phys. Rev. B 84, 024404 (2011)
The spin configurations of the lattice with d=80 nm, Sx =350 nm, and Sy =300 nm (a) and close-ups of SD (b),
LE-SDW(c), and HE-SDW(d) obtained numerically. HE-SDWs are indicated by rectangular frames in (a) and (d). LE-SDW is indicated by the dashed line in (c).

Friction by spin waves

Spin waves cause non-linear friction.
M. P. Magiera, L. Brendel, D. E. Wolf and U. Nowak
Eur. Phys. Lett. 91, 17010 (2011)
(a) Friction force for several velocities, with the non-confined part marked by the shading. (b) Nonconfined
contributions to the friction force times velocity as well as the function B(v −v0)4, where v0 has been taken from
eq. (16).

Monopole defects in spin-ice

Direct observation and control of magnetic monopole defects in an artificial spin-ice material.
S Ladak, D E Read, W R Branford1 and L F Cohen

New Journal of Physics 13, 063032 (2011)
The movement of magnetic monopole defects through the honeycomb lattice.

Monday 11 July 2011

Water-Dispersible Sugar-Coated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles. An Evaluation of their Relaxometric and Magnetic Hyperthermia Properties

Water-Dispersible Sugar-Coated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles. An Evaluation of their Relaxometric and Magnetic Hyperthermia Properties.
Lenaic Lartigue, Claudia Innocenti, Thangavel Kalaivani, Azzam Awwad,| Maria del Mar Sanchez Duque,Yannick Guari, Joulia Larionova, ChristianGuerin, Jean-Louis GeorgesMontero, Veronique Barragan-Montero, Paolo Arosio, Alessandro Lascialfari, Dante Gatteschi, and Claudio Sangregorio
JACS 133, 10459 (2011)

Single crystal Fe2O3 nanowires

Unique Magnetic Properties of Single Crystal γ-Fe2O3 Nanowires Synthesized by Flame Vapor Deposition.
Pratap M. Rao and Xiaolin Zheng
Nano Lett. 11, 2390 (2011)

Sub 100 nm Nanodots

Printing of Sub-100-nm Metal Nanodot Arrays by Carbon Nanopost Stamps.

Sang Ho Lee,† Byungjin Cho,† Seungha Yoon,† Huisu Jeong,† Sangyong Jon,‡ Gun Young Jung,† Beong Ki Cho,† Takhee Lee,† and Won Bae Kim
ACS Nano 5 5543 (2011)
The printed Au nanodots show an average size of 35 nm.

Manipulating magnetic DWs

Two articles showing diferent ways to interact with a domain wall have been published in the 8th July number of PRL:

1. Domain Wall Manipulation with a Magnetic Tip.
T. Stapelfeldt, R. Wieser, E.Y. Vedmedenko, and R. Wiesendanger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 027203 (2011)

Magnetic Structuring of Electrodeposits

Magnetic Structuring of Electrodeposits.
Peter Dunne, Lorenzo Mazza, and J. M. D. Coey

Phys. Rev. Lett.107, 024501 (2011)
Flow patterns induced by the Lorentz force for square parallel (left) and square antiparallel (right) magnet arrays used for magnetoelectrodeposition of metals.

Friday 8 July 2011

Spin torque induced by Rashba effect

Current-driven spin torque induced by the Rashba effect in a ferromagnetic metal layer.
Ioan Mihai Miron, Gilles Gaudin, Stéphane Auffret, Bernard Rodmacq, Alain Schuhl, Stefania Pizzini, Jan Vogel and Pietro Gambardella
Nature Mater. 9, 230 (2010)
Differential Kerr microscopy images recorded after current pulse injection.

Suppression of SWs

Suppression of Standing SpinWaves in Low-Dimensional Ferromagnets.
Andrea Taroni, Anders Bergman, Lars Bergqvist, Johan Hellsvik, and Olle Eriksson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 037202 (2011)

Dynamical structure factor Sðq;!Þ obtained
from ASD simulations of 8 ML Co/Cu(001).

Tuesday 5 July 2011

Spin currents by 3 magnon splitting

Controlled enhancement of spin-current emission by three-magnon splitting.
Hidekazu Kurebayashi, Oleksandr Dzyapko, Vladislav E. Demidov, Dong Fang, A. J. Ferguson
and Sergej O. Demokritov

Nature Mater. 10, 660 (2011)
Spin waves created by the three-magnon splitting measured
using BLS.

Hollow Fe oxide NPs

Chemically synthesized hollow nanostructures in iron oxides.
Hafsa Khurshid, Wanfeng Li, Vasillis Tzitzios and George C Hadjipanayis
Nanotechnology 22, 265605 (2011)