Large-scale area of magnetically anisotropic nanoparticle monolayer films deposited by MAPLE

Magnetically anisotropic nanoparticle monolayer films are of great interest for the development of ap-plications such as high-density data storage,sensors.However,the formation of large-scale magnetically anisotropic monolayer film is a challenging task.Here,we provide a new way to fabricate large-scale area of Fe_(3)O_(4) nanoparticle monolayer films by vacuum deposition technique(matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation,MAPLE).During the deposition process,only interactions between nanoparticles influence nanoparticle self-assembly behaviors.A strong magnetic anisotropy,characterized by in-plane and out-of-plane coercivity and saturation field obtained by DCM(dynamic cantilever magnetometry),was obtained both in cubic and spherical Fe_(3)O_(4) nanoparticle monolayer films.The inter-particle dipolar interaction but not crystal anisotropy is responsible for this effective magnetic anisotropy,which has been proved by Monte-Carlo simulations.