We present synthesis, structure and magnetic properties of structurally well-ordered single-crystalline b-MnO2 nanorods of 50–100 nm diameter and several lm length. Thorough structural characterization shows that the basic b-MnO2 material is covered by a thin surface layer (~2.5 nm) of a-Mn2O3 phase with a reduced Mn valence that adds its own magnetic signal to the total magnetization of the b-...

Defect-induced magnetism is firstly observed in neutron irradiated SiC single crystals. We demonstrated that the intentionally created defects dominated by divacancies (V(Si)V(C)) are responsible for the observed magnetism. First-principles calculations revealed that defect states favor the formation of local moments and the extended tails of defect wave functions make long-range spin couplings...

We report first-principles characterization of the structural and electronic properties of (SrTiO3)5/(SrRuO3)1 superlattices. We show that the system exhibits a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas, extremely confined to the 4d orbitals of Ru in the SrRuO3 layer. Every interface in the superlattice behaves as a minority-spin half-metal ferromagnet, with a magnetic moment of μ=2.0μ(B)/SrR...

Advances in nanoscale magnetism increasingly require characterization tools providing detailed descriptions of magnetic configurations. Magnetic transmission X-ray microscopy produces element specific magnetic domain images with nanometric lateral resolution in films up to ∼100 nm thick. Here we present an imaging method using the angular dependence of magnetic contrast in a series of high reso...

The development and characterization of three-dimensional topological magnetic textures has become an important topic in modern magnetism from both fundamental technological perspectives. Here, the authors stabilize skyrmionic cocoons by engineering properties Pt/Co/Al based multilayers with variable Co thickness. These new can be observed transmission x-ray holography. Their coexistence skyrmi...

tio2 /fe3o4 nanocomposites with various tio2:fe3o4 ratios were synthesized by an ultrasonic-assisted deposition-precipitation method and their uv-light decolorization of congo dye and magnetic separation were investigated. the nanocomposite samples were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (sem), powder x-ray diffraction (xrd), surface area analayzer (bet) and fourier transform infrare...

In magnetism, of which molecular magnetism is a part, the term frustration is used rather sloppily. Sometimes one gains the impression that if the reason for some phenomenon is not quite clear then it is attributed to frustration. In this paper a discussion of the effects of frustration that are relevant for the field of molecular magnetism is presented. As will become clear later these effects...

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Results of computer simulations based on ab initio methods are presented for the newly observed magnetism found in carbon-based and non-traditional inorganic materials. These results reinforce our previously proposed explanation about the nature and the origin of this “new type of magnetism” which attributes this to electron correlations effects which develop in the presence of defects and dopi...