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Study of magnetic properties of Pd nanoparticles and utrathin films

Grant number: 06/05357-0
Support Opportunities:Scholarships in Brazil - Master
Start date until: March 01, 2007
End date until: July 31, 2008
Field of knowledge:Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Condensed Matter Physics
Principal Investigator:Abner de Siervo
Grantee:José Jadsom Sampaio de Figueiredo
Host Institution: Associação Brasileira de Tecnologia de Luz Síncrotron (ABTLuS). Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (Brasil). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Nanoparticles and ultrathin films can show, in many cases, distinct properties from those presented in their bulk phases. These materials play a fundamental rule in the modern materials science and technology. The peculiar electronic, chemical, optical and magnetic properties in nanoparticules are mainly ruled by their size (size effect). In a similar way, ultrathin films grown on substrates with selected crystalline symmetry might have their electronic, structural and magnetic properties strongly influenced by the atomic arrangement of the substrate surfaces, as well as, by the film thickness and thermodynamic condition of growth. Among the anomalous effect displayed by nanoparticles and ultrathin films, there is the recent observation of ferromagnetism in noble metals and transition metals which do not show any ferromagnetic behavior in their bulk phases. This unexpected behavior has been recently predicted by using first principle theory and verified in some few experimental works. In this project, the student will characterize the magnetism in gold and palladium nanoparticle samples (already chemically synthesized), correlating these results with the structural and electronic properties of the nanoparticles. It will be done by a multi-technique approach, using X-ray Circular Magnetic Dichroism (XMCD), Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) and X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS). The main goal will be confirm the existence (or not existence) of ferromagnetism in these nanoparticles addressing the origin of magnetism. In a second step, ultrathin films of Pd (an enhanced Pauli’s paramagnetic metal) will be grown on Ru(0001), C(0001) and Nb(001) by using MBE. The idea is induce ferromagnetism in those films purely due structural and electronic mechanism. These samples will also be magnetically (XMCD), electronically (XPS and XANES) and structurally (EXAFS) characterized.

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FIGUEIREDO, José Jadsom Sampaio de. Study of the magnetic properties of AuPd nanoparticles. 2008. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin Campinas, SP.

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