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@PHDTHESIS{Josten:201355,
author = {Josten, Elisabeth},
title = {{L}ong range order in 3{D} nanoparticle assemblies},
volume = {111},
school = {RWTH Aachen},
type = {Dr.},
address = {Jülich},
publisher = {Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag},
reportid = {FZJ-2015-03652},
isbn = {978-3-95806-087-6},
series = {Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich. Reihe
Schlüsseltechnologien / Key Technologies},
pages = {238 S.},
year = {2015},
note = {RWTH Aachen, Diss., 2014},
abstract = {Magnetic nanoparticles and their assembly in highly
correlated structures are of great interest for future
applications as e.g. spin-based data storage. These systems
are not only distinguished by the obvious miniaturization
but by the novel physical properties emerging due to their
limited size and ordered arrangement, as well. The
superstructures are formed from nanometer sized building
blocks, ordered like atoms in a crystal, which renders them
a newclass of materials. To gain a profound understanding of
these systems it is necessary to perform experiments on all
length scales. The present work supplies an extensive and
novel contribution to the investigation of the structural
properties and the self-assembly of iron oxide nanoparticle
superstructures. The unique combination of microscopy and
scattering techniques allows a new understanding of the
structural features of three dimensional structures that
develop from the self-organization of these particles. In
this thesis, magnetic nanoparticles have been deposited for
this purpose using a self organization method to form long
range ordered structures, so called mesocrystals. The
processof self-assembling has been investigated for the
influence of different deposition parameters and these
parameters have been optimized. An in-situ study using
grazing incidence x-ray scattering during the growth of the
mesocrystals allowed the identification of different stages
of the mesocrystal growth and its spatial position. From the
combination of these different experiments it was possible
to establish a model for the growth process governed by a
shape and size selective arrangement of the particles.
Another highlight of this work is the measurement on a
single mesocrystal, which had only a volume of 2.5
$\mu$m$^{3}$, leading to a challenging diffraction
experiment. It was possible to extract structural quality
parameters from this investigation, as e.g. the mosaicity,
which would normally be masked by the distribution of the
orientation and lattice parameters generally present in the
normal samples that contain a large number of mesocrystals.
A detailed analysis of the scattering patterns of different
samples with mesocrystal ensembles yielded a refined
structure model, which allowed the quantitative analysis of
the data collected as well for in-situ created as for
already deposited samples. In addition, a new rounded cubes
form factor was developed for the modeling of small angle
x-ray scattering and the single mesocrystal diffraction
data. In conclusion, this work shows the large correlation
in these nanoparticle superstructures, the distribution of
different structural parameters that can be present in the
samples and how much information can be extracted from the
scattering patterns.},
cin = {JCNS-2 / PGI-4 / JARA-FIT},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-2-20110106 / I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-4-20110106 /
$I:(DE-82)080009_20140620$},
pnm = {144 - Controlling Collective States (POF3-144) / 524 -
Controlling Collective States (POF3-524) / 6213 - Materials
and Processes for Energy and Transport Technologies
(POF3-621) / 6G4 - Jülich Centre for Neutron Research
(JCNS) (POF3-623)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-144 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-524 /
G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6213 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G4},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11 / PUB:(DE-HGF)3},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/201355},
}