Abstract
Here we study the influence of particle size on the formation of antiferromagnetic FexO subdomains and the emergence of exchange bias in novel ferrimagnetic Cr-substituted Fe3O4 nanoparticles generated using an aerosol technique based on spark ablation. Cooling in an applied magnetic field across the Néel temperature of the FexO subdomains results in significant shifts in the hysteresis loops, which decrease in magnitude with the particle diameter for the two large systems (D≈20nm&D≈40nm), whereas only minor exchange fields are observed for the smallest system (D≈10nm). The reduced exchange bias is attributed to the metastable FexO’s lower volume fraction and size due to a facile transformation into the thermodynamically stable (Fe,Cr)3O4 phase with decreasing particle diameter.
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