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Title: Structural and Magnetic Properties of FePt/SiO{sub 2} Core/Shell Nanoparticles

Journal Article · · Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism
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  1. Jilin Normal University, Key Laboratory of Functional Materials Physics and Chemistry of the Ministry of Education (China)

The disorder-order phase transition of FePt/SiO{sub 2} core/shell nanoparticles (NPs) induced by rapid thermal annealing was investigated. The FePt/SiO{sub 2} NPs were synthesized using FePt cores as seeds. For as-prepared FePt/SiO{sub 2} NPs, the average size of the FePt core and the thickness of the SiO{sub 2} shell are about 4.8 and 1.2 nm respectively, and the FePt NPs exhibit a disordered fcc structure. The FePt core NPs show obvious phase transformation from a disordered to an ordered structure after they were annealed at 600 °C for 2 min. Moreover, increasing annealing time can promote effectively the formation of the ordered fct-FePt phase. The relatively large coercivity H{sub c} is obtained for FePt NPs with a thicker SiO{sub 2} shell. The H{sub c} decreases firstly with decreasing temperature from 300 to 100 K and then increases from 100 to 10 K, which is ascribed to the coexistence of magnetically hard fct-FePt and magnetically soft fcc-FePt in the sample, and the incomplete exchange coupling between the hard and soft magnetic phases.

OSTI ID:
22919586
Journal Information:
Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, Vol. 32, Issue 3; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2019 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature; http://www.springer-ny.com; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1557-1939
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English