Magnetic coupling mechanisms in particle/thin film composite systems

• Giovanni A. Badini Confalonieri,
• Philipp Szary,
• Durgamadhab Mishra,
• Maria J. Benitez,
• Mathias Feyen,
• An Hui Lu,
• Leonardo Agudo,
• Gunther Eggeler,
• Oleg Petracic and
• Hartmut Zabel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 101–107, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.12

• -assembly; nanoparticle-thinfilm composite; super-spin glass interaction; Introduction Recently, the study of composite magnetic nanostructures has received great interest due to the potential applications as permanent magnets or advanced data storage media [1][2][3][4][5]. In particular, systems where