Journal
BEILSTEIN JOURNAL OF NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 1, Issue -, Pages 101-107Publisher
BEILSTEIN-INSTITUT
DOI: 10.3762/bjnano.1.12
Keywords
exchange bias; iron oxide nanoparticles; nanoparticle self-assembly; nanoparticle-thinfilm composite; super-spin glass interaction
Funding
- Ruhr-University Bochum through the Research Department IS3/HTM
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Magnetic gamma-Fe2O3 nanoparticles with a mean diameter of 20 nm and size distribution of 7% were chemically synthesized and spin-coated on top of a Si-substrate. As a result, the particles self-assembled into a monolayer with hexagonal close-packed order. Subsequently, the nanoparticle array was coated with a Co layer of 20 nm thickness. The magnetic properties of this composite nanoparticle/thin film system were investigated by magnetometry and related to high-resolution transmission electron microscopy studies. Herein three systems were compared: i.e. a reference sample with only the particle monolayer, a composite system where the particle array was ion-milled prior to the deposition of a thin Co film on top, and a similar composite system but without ion-milling. The nanoparticle array showed a collective super-spin behavior due to dipolar interparticle coupling. In the composite system, we observed a decoupling into two nanoparticle subsystems. In the ion-milled system, the nanoparticle layer served as a magnetic flux guide as observed by magnetic force microscopy. Moreover, an exchange bias effect was found, which is likely to be due to oxygen exchange between the iron oxide and the Co layer, and thus forming of an antiferromagnetic CoO layer at the gamma-Fe2O3/Co interface.
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