Physics of Magnetic Nanostructures
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A comprehensive coverage of the physical properties and real-world applications of magnetic nanostructures
This book discusses how the important properties of materials such as the cohesive energy, and the electronic and vibrational structures are affected when materials have at least one length in the nanometer range. The author uses relatively simple models of the solid state to explain why these changes in the size and dimension in the nanometer regime occur. The text also reviews the physics of magnetism and experimental methods of measuring magnetic properties necessary to understanding how nanosizing affects magnetism. Various kinds of magnetic structures are presented by the author in order to explain how nanosizing influences their magnetic properties. The book also presents potential and actual applications of nanomaterials in the fields of medicine and computer data storage.
Physics of Magnetic Nanostructures:
- Covers the magnetism in carbon and born nitride nanostructures, bulk nanostructured magnetic materials, nanostructured magnetic semiconductors, and the fabrication of magnetic nanostructures
- Discusses emerging applications of nanomaterials such as targeted delivery of drugs, enhancement of images in MRI, ferrofluids, and magnetic computer data storage
- Includes end-of-chapter exercises and five appendices
Physics of Magnetic Nanostructures is written for senior undergraduate and graduate students in physics and nanotechnology, material scientists, chemists, and physicists.
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Physics of Magnetic Nanostructures - Frank J. Owens
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PROPERTIES OF NANOSTRUCTURES
Nanostructures are generally considered to consist of a number of atoms or molecules bonded together in a cluster with at least one dimension less than 100 nm. A nanometer is 10−9 m or 10 Å. Spherical particles having a radius of about 1000 Å or less can be considered to be nanoparticles. If one dimension is reduced to the nano range, while the other two dimensions remain large, then we obtain a structure known as a well. If two dimensions are reduced, while one remains large, the resulting structure is referred to as a wire. The limiting case of this process of size reduction in which all three dimensions reach the low nanometer range is called a dot. Figure 1.1 illustrates the structures of rectangular wells, wires, and dots. This chapter will discuss how the important properties of materials such as the cohesive energy and the electronic and vibrational structure are affected when materials have at least one length in the nanometer range. Elementary models of the solid state will be used to explain why the changes occur on nanosizing.
c1-fig-0001FIGURE 1.1 Structures corresponding to a rectangular well, wire, and dot having one, two, and three dimensions of nanometer length, respectively.
1.1 COHESIVE ENERGY
The atoms or ions of a solid are held together by interactions between them, which can be electrostatic and/or covalent. The electrostatic interaction is described by the Coulomb potential between charged particles. Covalent bonding involves overlap of wave functions of outer electrons of nearest neighbor atoms in the lattice. A crystal is stable if the total energy of the lattice is less than the sum of the energies of the atoms or molecules that make up the crystal when they are isolated from each other. The energy difference is the cohesive energy of the solid. As materials approach nanometer dimensions, the percentage of atoms on the surface increases. Figure 1.2 demonstrates a plot of the percentage of atoms on the surface of a hypothetical face-centered cubic (fcc) structure having a lattice parameter of 4 Å. Appendix A provides a table relating the diameter of spherical nanoparticles to the number of atoms in the particle and the percentage on the surface. Below about 14 nm, more than 10% of the atoms are on the surface. This holds true for metallic particles as well as ionically and covalently bonded materials. Since the atoms on the surface have less nearest neighbor atoms, this means that the cohesive energy of an ionic solid decreases as the size is reduced in the nanometer range. One of the results of this decrease in cohesive energy is an increase in the separation of the constituents of the lattice. Figure 1.3 shows an X-ray diffraction measurement of the lattice parameter of the ionic solid CeO2 as a function of particle size showing the increase in the lattice parameter as the particle size is reduced. This results in a reduction of the strength of the interaction between the ions of the solid and thus a reduction in the cohesive