Mechanism of magnetization reduction in iron oxide nanoparticles

Tobias Köhler1, Artem Feoktystov, Oleg Petracic

  • 1Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum MLZ, 85748 Garching, Germany. t.koehler@fz-juelich.de.

Nanoscale
|April 22, 2021
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