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Magnetic hysteresis loops were measured for ferrimagnetic iron chalcogenide Fe3Se4 nanoparticles in the whole temperature range below the Curie temperature TC (315 K). The coercivity of the material is huge, reaching about 40 kOe at 10 K. The magnetic anisotropy constant K was determined from the magnetic hysteresis loop using the law of approach to saturation. The deduced anisotropy constant at 10 K is 5.22×106 erg/cm3, which is over one order of magnitude larger than that of Fe3O4. We also demonstrated that the experimental magnetic hysteresis loop is in good agreement with the theoretical curve calculated by Stoner and Wohlfarth for a noninteracting randomly oriented uniaxial single-domain particle system. Moreover, we show that K is proportional to the cube of the saturation magnetization Ms, which confirms earlier theoretical models for uniaxial magnets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

High-temperature magnetic measurements were carried out on barium ferrite BaFe12 O19 nanoparticles coated with amorphous silica. We find that the Curie temperature of this material decreases with decreasing particle size, in agreement with the finite-size scaling theory. In contrast to what one expects, the observed particle-size dependence of the Curie temperature does not follow a finite-size scaling relation for a zero-dimensional magnetic system. Instead, the data follow a finite-size scaling relation for a two-dimensional magnetic system with the scaling exponent ν = 0.78±0.06. The validity of the two-dimensional scaling relation in this material is due to the fact that the nanoparticles have a platelet-like shape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We report magnetic hysteresis loops in a wide temperature range (4-700 K) for silica-coated barium ferrite BaFe12O19 nanoparticles. The saturation magnetization Ms and the first magnetic anisotropy constant K are determined simultaneously from the magnetic hysteresis loop using the law of approach to saturation. It is remarkable that K is linearly proportional to Ms and varies precisely with temperature as K(T) = K(0)[1 - (T/TC)1.58] in the whole temperature range below the Curie temperature TC (740 K). The unusual temperature dependence of the anisotropy constant and its linear relation with the saturation magnetization in BaFe12O19 are not predicted from the existing theoretical models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Magnetic measurements up to 1000 K have been performed on hydrothermally synthesized α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles (60 nm) using a Quantum Design vibrating sample magnetometer. A high vacuum environment (1×10-5 Torr) during the magnetic measurement up to 1000 K leads to a complete reduction of α-Fe2O3 to Fe3O4. This precludes the determination of the Néel temperature for the α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles. In contrast, coating α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles with SiO2 stabilizes the α-Fe2O3 phase up to 930 K, which allows us to determine the Néel temperature of the α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles for the first time. The Néel temperature of the 60-nm α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles is found to be 945 K, about 15 K below the bulk value. The small reduction of the Néel temperature of the α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles is consistent with a finite-size scaling theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Deals with a study that described a method for preparing single crystals of Ba[sub2]GdCu[sub3]O[sub7-y] of much larger size. Factors that were obtained from a superconducting crystal; Step taken to characterize the electrical quality of the annealed crystal; Cause of the large resistivity in the single crystal.