Document Type

Article

Source Publication Title

Applied Physics Letters; PROCEEDINGS OF THE 53RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS / Hard Magnetic Materials

Abstract

The state of the chemical ordering in a decahedral FePt nanoparticle was studied using aberration corrected high resolution transmission electron microscopy. With the reduced image delocalization effect as a result of spherical aberration correction, it is possible to directly correlate the image intensity with the local state of chemical ordering through the help of a multislice image simulation. We have found direct evidence for the image intensity oscillation from one atomic layer to another. It is interpreted as L10-like chemical ordering, i.e., the alternate occupation of Fe and Pt atoms in the (002) planes. The result suggests that chemical ordering survives even in decahedral nanoparticles down to 3 nm size despite the possible surface effects.

Disciplines

Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Physics

Publication Date

3-9-2009

Language

English

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