%0 Journal Article
%K Evaluation
%K Electricity
%K Decomposition
%K Temperature
%K Pulsed laser deposition
%K Transmission electron microscopy
%K Methodology
%K Anisotropy
%K Perovskite
%K Iron
%K Semiconductor
%K Chemistry
%K Semiconductors
%K Nanostructured materials
%K Crystallization
%K Crystallography
%K Iron compounds
%K Lanthanum compounds
%K Materials
%K Materials testing
%K Nanotechnology
%K Article
%K Single crystals
%K Ferromagnetic materials
%K Magnetization
%K Surface properties
%K Ferric oxide
%K Thermodynamics
%K Surface property
%K Ferric ion
%K Ferric Compounds
%K Conformation
%K Ultrastructure
%K Molecular Conformation
%K Self-assembly
%K Energy dispersive spectroscopy
%K Iron nanowires
%K Self-assembled nanowires
%K Specific energy
%K Thermodynamic equilibrium
%K Nanotube
%K Metallurgy
%K Electric Wiring
%K Manufactured Materials
%K Nanotubes
%A L Mohaddes-Ardabili
%A H Zheng
%A S.B Ogale
%A B Hannoyer
%A W Tian
%A J Wang
%A S.E Lofland
%A S.R Shinde
%A T Zhao
%A Y Jia
%A L Salamanca-Riba
%A D.G Schlom
%A M Wuttig
%A Ramamoorthy Ramesh
%B Nature Materials
%D 2004
%G eng
%I Nature Publishing Group
%P 533-538
%R 10.1038/nmat1162
%T Self-assembled single-crystal ferromagnetic iron nanowires formed by decomposition
%V 3
%X Arrays of perpendicular ferromagnetic nanowires have recently attracted considerable interest for their potential use in many areas of advanced nanotechnology. We report a simple approach to create self-assembled nanowires of α-Fe through the decomposition of a suitably chosen perovskite. We illustrate the principle behind this approach using the reaction 2La 0.5Sr0.5FeO3 → LaSrFeO4 + Fe + O2 that occurs during the deposition of La0.5Sr 0.5FeO3 under reducing conditions. This leads to the spontaneous formation of an array of single-crystalline α-Fe nanowires embedded in LaSrFeO4 matrix, which grow perpendicular to the substrate and span the entire film thickness. The diameter and spacing of the nanowires are controlled directly by deposition temperature. The nanowires show uniaxial anisotropy normal to the film plane and magnetization close to that of bulk α-Fe. The high magnetization and sizable coercivity of the nanowires make them desirable for high-density data storage and other magnetic-device applications.