Abstract
Discovering the effect of magnetic anisotropy on the magnetization configurations of magnetic nanomaterials is essential and significant for not only enriching the fundamental knowledge of magnetics but also facilitating the designs of desired magnetic nanostructures for diverse technological applications, such as data storage devices, spintronic devices, and magnetic nanosensors. Herein, we present a direct observation of magnetocrystalline anisotropy tuning magnetization configurations in uniaxial magnetic nanomaterials with hexagonal structure by means of three modeled samples. The magnetic configuration in polycrystalline BaFe12O19 nanoslice is a curling structure, revealing that the effect of magnetocrystalline anisotropy in uniaxial magnetic nanomaterials can be broken by forming an amorphous structure or polycrystalline structure with tiny grains. Both single crystalline BaFe12O19 nanoslice and individual particles of single-particle-chain BaFe12O19 nanowire appear in a single domain state, revealing a dominant role of magnetocrystalline anisotropy in the magnetization configuration of uniaxial magnetic nanomaterials. These observations are further verified by micromagnetic computational simulations.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3442-3448 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | ACS Nano |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 20 2018 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledgements: This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (51571104, 11604130, 51601082, 51771085, and 11274145), MOST International Cooperation Funds (2014DFA91340), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (lzujbky-2017-176 and lzujbky-2017-177), and Open Project of Key Laboratory of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials of the Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University (LZUMMM2017003).