Dependence of exchange bias on the field-cooled remanent magnetic state in Ni/NiO nanogranular samples

被引:12
作者
Del Bianco, L. [1 ,2 ]
Spizzo, F. [3 ,4 ]
Tamisari, M. [3 ,4 ]
Laureti, S. [5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
[2] CNISM, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
[3] Univ Ferrara, Dipartimento Fis, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
[4] CNISM, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
[5] ISM CNR, I-00015 Monterotondo, RM, Italy
关键词
Nanogranular samples; Exchange bias; Remanent magnetization; NANOPARTICLES;
D O I
10.1016/j.ssc.2010.12.027
中图分类号
O469 [凝聚态物理学];
学科分类号
070205 ;
摘要
The magnitude of the exchange bias (EB) effect in nanogranular Ni/NiO samples (with Ni content between about 4 and 69 wt% and mean size of the Ni crystallites of the order of 10 nm) has been found to be strictly related to the increase in the remanent magnetization measured after field-cooling, with respect to the value after zero-field-cooling, normalized to the saturation magnetization. This allows describing the EB mechanism in terms of the fraction of the magnetic moments of the Ni nanocrystallites that irreversibly has aligned in the field direction during field-cooling, due to the exchange anisotropy, and that is effectively involved in the loop shift. Hence, the possibility of tuning EB by controlling the field-cooled remanent magnetic state is shown. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页数:3
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