Magnetic nanoparticles have many applications in biomedicine and other technical areas. Despite their huge economic impact, there are no standardised procedures available to measure their basic magnetic properties. The International Organization for Standardization is working on a series of documents on the definition of characteristics of magnetic nanomaterials. We review previous and ongoing European research projects on characteristics of magnetic nanoparticles and present results of an online survey among European researchers.
Magnetic force microscopy (MFM), which allows mapping of the magnetic field distribution with nanoscale resolution, is a well‐known tool. However, for the last two decades, calibration was available only to a few labs. Now, after a few years of active research, the calibration protocols have been reviewed and improved, making it available to every laboratory. In article number 1906144, Héctor Corte‐León and co‐workers show the progress done toward making quantitative MFM a common tool in nanocharacterization laboratories.
The relationship between magnetic phase transition temperatures (Curie temperature: T c , ferromagnetic antiferromagnetic transition temperature: T 0 ) and lattice distortions in L1 0 FePt 1-x Rh x thin films (6 nm thick) were studied. Thin film depositions on varied substrates modifies lattice constants due to misfits between substrates and films, as well as residual stresses caused by rapid thermal annealing. Both epitaxially grown FePtRh thin films on MgO(001) substrate and nonepitaxially grown FePtRh thin films on SiO 2 substrate exhibited the (001) oriented L1 0 structure. The MgO/FePtRh films and the SiO 2 /FePtRh films had the almost constant a values of 0.383 nm (1.0 of compressive strain to the FePtRh bulks) and 0.390 nm (0.8 of tensile strain to the FePtRh bulks) in average respectively, whereas the c values decreased with the Rh composition (x ). The c axis distortion in both the MgO/FePtRh films and the SiO 2 /FePtRh films were the tensile strain in 0.25<x, and the strain values were 1.2 and 0.6, respectively. T c decreased with x in all of the samples (MgO/FePtRh films, SiO 2 /FePtRh films, and FePtRh bulks), and the reduction rates strongly depended on the c values rather than values of a or x. T 0 increased with x in all of the samples, and the incremental rates also strongly depended on the c values. [doi:10.2320/jinstmet.JAW201501] (Received April 14, 2015; Accepted May 7, 2015; Published September 1, 2015) Keywords: iron platinum, ordered alloy, thin film, magnetic phase transition, curie temperature, lattice distortion
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