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Royal Society of Chemistry, Nanoscale, 17(7), p. 8110-8114, 2015

DOI: 10.1039/c5nr00592b

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Direct imaging of the magnetic polarity and reversal mechanism in individual Fe<sub>3−x</sub>O<sub>4</sub> nanoparticles

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Abstract

This work reports on the experimental characterization of the magnetic domain configurations in cubic, isolated Fe3-xO4 nanoparticles with a lateral size of 25-30 nm. The magnetic polarity at remanence of single domain ferrimagnetic Fe3-xO4 nanoparticles deposited onto a carbon-silicon wafer is observed by magnetic force microscopy. The orientations of those domains provide a direct observation of the magneto-crystalline easy axes in each individual nanoparticle. Furthermore, the change in the domain orientation with an external magnetic field gives evidence of a particle magnetization reversal mediated by a coherent rotation process that is also theoretically predicted by micromagnetic calculations.