• 文献标题:   Non-collinear ferromagnetic short range order in MgO decked multi-layered graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SREENIVASULU KV, ROTTE NK, SRIKANTHA VVSS, KAUL SN
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1463-9076 EI 1463-9084
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Hyderabad
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1039/c6cp07113a
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

A careful magnetic study of MgO decked multi-layered graphene (MDMLG), synthesized by a combustion process that does not involve the use of graphite (which can be a source of magnetic impurities) was conducted and an elaborate analysis of high-precision magnetization data permits us to completely rule out the presence of a long-range ferromagnetic (FM) ordering at temperatures T >= 2.5 K. Instead, a non-collinear FM short-range order persists up to temperatures as high as 300 K and a concomitant paramagnetic component is present at all the temperatures. The observed exponential temperature variations of the 'field-cooled' and 'zerofield- cooled' magnetizations, remanent magnetization, saturation magnetization, coercive field, exchange field and random anisotropy field are shown to basically reflect the exponential growth of the correlation length for the spins at the zigzag edges of graphene as the temperature falls below the temperature, T-x congruent to 10 K where a crossover from extremely weak to moderately weak magnetic anisotropy occurs. In sharp contrast, a paramagnetic response is induced by the defects in nanometer-sized MgO crystallites in MDMLG.