Effects of high magnetic field annealing on FePt nanoparticles with shape-anisotropy and element-distribution-anisotropy.

The concave-cube FePt nanoparticles (NPs) with shape-anisotropy and element-distribution-anisotropy were annealed under a high magnetic field (HMF). The NPs underwent spheroidization and phase transformation during the annealing process. The HMF hardly affected the spheroidizing process of NPs, but obviously facilitated the disorder-order transition of the L 1 0 -phase. The L 1 0 -phase content, ordering degree, and the coercivity of annealed NPs increased with enhancing the HMF strength. Those results indicated that the nucleation of the L 1 0 -phase and ordering diffusion of Fe/Pt atoms were promoted by the HMF.