Cubic chemically ordered FeRh and FeCo nanomagnets prepared by mass-selected low-energy cluster-beam deposition: a comparative study

• Veronique Dupuis,
• Anthony Robert,
• Arnaud Hillion,
• Ghassan Khadra,
• Nils Blanc,
• Damien Le Roy,
• Florent Tournus,
• Clement Albin,
• Olivier Boisron and
• Alexandre Tamion

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1850–1860, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.177

• modified Stoner–Wohlfarth model combined with the geometrical approach of the coherent rotation of magnetization [26]. We introduced a bi-axial contribution to completely describe the effective magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) [27]. For all samples, we have reached a reliable determination of all the

On the structure of grain/interphase boundaries and interfaces

• K. Anantha Padmanabhan and
• Herbert Gleiter

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1603–1615, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.172

• processes connected to a problem on hand is contained within this representative volume. The unresolved issues are identified. Keywords: geometrical approach; grain/interphase boundaries; interfaces; representative volume; structural/basic unit model; Introduction What is reported below is a full account

• of a competition between the minimization of free energy and the maximization of entropy of the system. A survey of contemporary literature reveals that the latter approach is the favored one. However, in some situations, the former (geometrical) approach could help solve problems easily, albeit

• to be planar and understanding the responses of the boundaries to external stimuli by using notions based in crystallography. This covers all kinds of crystalline grain boundaries, excluding random high-angle grain boundaries. Here two alternative approaches are found: (i) a purely geometrical

Manipulation of nanoparticles of different shapes inside a scanning electron microscope

• Boris Polyakov,
• Sergei Vlassov,
• Leonid M. Dorogin,
• Jelena Butikova,
• Mikk Antsov,
• Sven Oras,
• Rünno Lõhmus and
• Ilmar Kink

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 133–140, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.13

• the contact area can be distinguished: geometrical and adhesive. The contact area of polyhedron-like Au NPs on a flat substrate can be defined as the area of the facet in contact. It enables to use the geometrical approach to the contact area for faceted NPs. It should be added that because of the