MgO-based magnetic tunnel junctions have been fabricated with a thin Co40Fe40B20 CoFeB layer in the pinned synthetic antiferromagnetic CoFe/Ru/CoFeB stack. An inverted tunneling magnetoresistance is observed due to the unbalanced synthetic antiferromagnet. Superparamagnetic nanoparticles form when the CoFeB layer is thinner than 1.5 nm, and an abnormal temperature dependence of the junction res...

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One hundred fifty to 300-nm-sized monodisperse iron oxide (Fe3O4) hollow microspheres were synthesized by the one-pot hydrothermal method. The morphology and crystal structure of the as-prepared hollow microspheres was characterized by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, while the magnetic prope...

Superparamagnetism of tryptophan implying the presence of magnetic domain is reported. The observation helps us to conceive assembly of proteins as a physical lattice gas with multidimensional Ising character, each lattice points assuming discrete spin states. When magnetic field is applied the equilibrium is lost and the population density of one spin state increases (unidirectional alignment)...

The magnetic properties of ColCu multilayers were investigated from 5 to 380 K and analyzed in terms of the interFace magnetism and mean-field model. The interface, which is about 1.2 w thick, is nonmagnetic at room temperature and becomes magnetic at 5 K with the average magnetization of 40% of the pure Co magnetization. The samples of X w Co/l0 A Cu behaved superparamagnetically as X ranged f...