• 文献标题:   Tunable room-temperature ferromagnet using an iron-oxide and graphene oxide nanocomposite
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LIN AL, RODRIGUES JNB, SU CL, MILLETARI M, LOH KP, WU T, CHEN W, NETO AHC, ADAM S, WEE ATS
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  • 出版物名称:   SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
  • ISSN:   2045-2322
  • 通讯作者地址:   Natl Univ Singapore
  • 被引频次:   8
  • DOI:   10.1038/srep11430
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Magnetic materials have found wide application ranging from electronics and memories to medicine. Essential to these advances is the control of the magnetic order. To date, most room-temperature applications have a fixed magnetic moment whose orientation is manipulated for functionality. Here we demonstrate an iron-oxide and graphene oxide nanocomposite based device that acts as a tunable ferromagnet at room temperature. Not only can we tune its transition temperature in a wide range of temperatures around room temperature, but the magnetization can also be tuned from zero to 0.011 A m(2)/kg through an initialization process with two readily accessible knobs (magnetic field and electric current), after which the system retains its magnetic properties semi-permanently until the next initialization process. We construct a theoretical model to illustrate that this tunability originates from an indirect exchange interaction mediated by spin-imbalanced electrons inside the nanocomposite.