Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
Transmission Electron Microscopy(TEM) and magnetization measurements were used to study the correlation between size of the iron particles precipitated in glass and their magnetic properties. The iron particles les s than 40 Å in diameter photodeposited in porous Vycor glass(PVG) show superparamagnetic behavior at room temperature. As the size of the particles increases and reaches about 100 Å in diameter, the magnetization curve shows minor hysteresis with a very large coercivity.