Formation of Cu_xAu_1−x phases by cold homogenization of Au/Cu nanocrystalline thin films

• Alona Tynkova,
• Gabor L. Katona,
• Gabor A. Langer,
• Sergey I. Sidorenko,
• Svetlana M. Voloshko and
• Dezso L. Beke

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1491–1500, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.162

• . Examples for the latter are the metallization of integrated circuits (the formation of a nanometric NiSi layer on the Si substrate [1][2]), or the production of thin chemically ordered FePt films for perpendicular magnetic data recording [3][4]. Regarding the basic understanding of such reactions the

Structural and magnetic properties of ternary Fe_1–xMn_xPt nanoalloys from first principles

• Markus E. Gruner and
• Peter Entel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 162–172, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.20

• only small additions of Mn can be tolerated for data recording applications. Keywords: density functional theory; Fe–Pt; magnetic data recording; magnetostructural transition; Mn–Pt; Introduction Magnetic transition metal alloy nanoparticles provide a large variety of possibilities in several