AIP Advances (Dec 2019)

Structural and magnetic properties of Co-V nanoparticles

  • O. Tosun,
  • I. Ruzybayev,
  • F. M. Abel,
  • B. Balamurugan,
  • R. Skomski,
  • D. J. Sellmyer,
  • G. C. Hadjipanayis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5130456
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 12
pp. 125144 – 125144-5

Abstract

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We have investigated the structural and magnetic properties of Co1-xVx nanoparticles (NPs) with composition x = 0.25 (stoichiometric) and 0.29 (under-stoichiometric) prepared by the cluster-beam deposition (CBD) technique. Our data shows that the as-made Co1-xVx NPs are a mixture of the high-temperature phase (HTP) and the low-temperature phase (LTP) of Co3V and the particles are superparamagnetic at room temperature (RT) with blocking temperatures (TB) of 90 and 137 K for x = 0.25 and 0.29, respectively. This behavior contrasts with the bulk which are paramagnetic down to 4.2 K. When the Co75V25 NPs are annealed at 573 K, they undergo a phase separation into a mixture of phases and become ferromagnetic at room temperature with Curie temperature (Tc) of 515 K.