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Magnetic Anisotropy Energy Distribution and Magnetization of CoPt Nanoparticles Encaged in Protein Shell

Journal of Magnetics, Volume 22, Number 1, 31 Mar 2017, Pages 1-6
T. H. Lee (Department of Physics, Kookmin University), B. J. Suh (Department of Physics, The Catholic University of Korea), Z. H. Jang * (Department of Physics, Kookmin University)
Abstract
Magnetic properties of CoPt nanoparticles (average size = 2.1 nm) encapsulated in synthesized protein shell have been investigated with SQUID (Superconducting Quantum Interference Device) magnetometer and analyzed by the recently developed non-equilibrium magnetization calculation by our group [T. H. Lee et al., Phys. Rev. B 90, 184411 (2014)]. Field dependence of magnetization measured at 2 K was successfully analyzed with modified Langevin function. In addition, small hysteresis loops having the coercive field of 890 Oe were observed at 2 K. Temperature dependence of magnetization has been measured with zero field cooled (ZFC) and field cooled (FC) protocol with slightly modified sequence in accordance with non-equilibrium magnetization calculation. The analysis on the M vs. T data revealed that the anisotropy energy barrier distribution is found to be very different from the log-normal distribution found in a size distribution. Zero temperature coercive field and Bloch coefficient have also been extracted from the analysis and the validity of those values is checked.
 
Keywords: magnetic nanoparticle; CoPt; non-equilibrium magnetization calculation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4283/JMAG.2017.22.1.001
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