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NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 21, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/21/12/125705
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The magnetic properties of ultra-small (3 nm) CoFe2O4 nanoparticles have been investigated by DC magnetization measurements as a function of temperature and magnetic field. The main features of the magnetic behaviour are blocking of non-interacting particle moments (zero-field-cooled magnetization T-max approximate to 40 K), a rapid increase of saturation magnetization (up to values higher than for the bulk material) at low T and an increase in anisotropy below 30 K due to the appearance of exchange bias. The low temperature behaviour is determined by a random freezing of surface spins. Localized spin-canting and cation distribution between the two sublattices of the spinel structure account quantitatively for the observed increase in saturation magnetization.
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