Glassy magnetic behavior and exchange bias phenomena are observed in single phase Mn3O4 nanoparticles.Dynamics scaling analysis of the ac susceptibility and the Henkel plot indicate that the observed glassy behavior a...Glassy magnetic behavior and exchange bias phenomena are observed in single phase Mn3O4 nanoparticles.Dynamics scaling analysis of the ac susceptibility and the Henkel plot indicate that the observed glassy behavior at low temperature can be understood by taking into account the intrinsic behavior of the individual particles consisting of a ferrimagnetic（FIM） core and a spin-glass surface layer.Field-cooled magnetization hysteresis loops display both horizontal and vertical shifts.Dependence of the exchange bias field（HE） on the cooling field shows an almost undamped feature up to 70 kOe,indicating the stable exchange bias state in Mn3O4.HE increases as the particle size decreases due to the higher surface/volume ratio.The occurrence of the exchange bias can be attributed to the pinning effect of the frozen spin-glass surface layer upon the FIM core.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11464007)the Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi,China(Grant Nos.2012GXNSFGA060002 and 2014GXNSFBA118241)+1 种基金the Guangxi Key Laboratory of Information Material Foundation,China(Grant No.131021-Z)the Guangxi Department of Education Foundation,China(Grant Nos.YB2014120 and KY2015YB104)
文摘Glassy magnetic behavior and exchange bias phenomena are observed in single phase Mn3O4 nanoparticles.Dynamics scaling analysis of the ac susceptibility and the Henkel plot indicate that the observed glassy behavior at low temperature can be understood by taking into account the intrinsic behavior of the individual particles consisting of a ferrimagnetic（FIM） core and a spin-glass surface layer.Field-cooled magnetization hysteresis loops display both horizontal and vertical shifts.Dependence of the exchange bias field（HE） on the cooling field shows an almost undamped feature up to 70 kOe,indicating the stable exchange bias state in Mn3O4.HE increases as the particle size decreases due to the higher surface/volume ratio.The occurrence of the exchange bias can be attributed to the pinning effect of the frozen spin-glass surface layer upon the FIM core.
