Recent Refereed Publications

• Surface Anisotropy and Magnetic Freezing of MnO Nanoparticles, M.A. Morales, R. Skomski, S. Fritz, G. Shelburne, J.E. Shield, Ming Yin, Stephen O’Brien, and D.L. Leslie-Pelecky, Phys. Rev. B 75, 134423 (2007) [doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.134423] paper
• Spin Glass or Random Anisotropy?:  The Origin of Magnetically Glassy Behavior in Nanostructured GdAl2, P. M. Shand, C. C. Stark, D. Williams, M. A. Morales, T. M. Pekarek, and D. L. Leslie-Pelecky, J. Appl. Phys. 97, 10J505 (2005); doi:10.1063/1.1853003 paper
• Disorder-Induced Depression of the Curie Temperature in Mechanically Milled GdAl2, M.A. Morales, D.S. Williams, P.M. Shand, C. Stark, T.M. Pekarek, L.P. Yue, V. Petkov, and D.L. Leslie-Pelecky, Phys. Rev. B 70, 184407 (2004)  (paper)
• Magnetic transitions in disordered GdAl2, D.S. Williams, P.M. Shand, T.M. Pekarek, R. Skomski, V. Petkov and D.L. Leslie-Pelecky, Phys. Rev. B, 68, 214404 (2003)  paper
• Curie-Weiss Analysis of Ferromagnetic and Glassy Transitions in Nanostructured GdAl2, D. Williams, P. M. Shand, C. Stark, T. Pekarek, R. Brown, Lanping Yue, D. L. Leslie-Pelecky, J. Appl. Phys. 93, 6525-6527 (2003) paper
• Coercivity of Disordered Nanostructures, R. Skomski, D. Leslie-Pelecky, R.D. Kirby, A. Kashyap, D.J. Sellmyer; Scripta Mater. 48, 857-862 (2003)
• High-Temperature Magnetic Properties of SmCo6.7-xCu0.6Tix magnets, I.A. Al-Omari, J. Shobaki, R. Skomski, D.L. Leslie-Pelecky, J. Zhou, D.J. Sellmyer; Physica B, 321 (1-4), 107-111 (2002)
• The Role of Disorder in the Magnetic Properties of Mechanically Milled Nanostructured Alloys, Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky, Elaine M. Kirkpatrick, Tom Pekarek, Richard L. Schalek, Paul Shand, Deborah S. Williams, and Lanping Yue; in Applications of Ferromagnetic and Optical Materials, Storage and Magnetoelectronics, edited by H. J. Borg, K. Bussmann, W. F. Egelhoff, L. Hesselink, S. A. Majetich, E. S. Murdock, B. J. H. Stadler, M. Vazquez, M. Wuttig and J. Q. Xiao, (Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 674, Warrendale, PA, 2002) p U5.1
• Coexistence of Ferromagnetic and Glassy States in Mechanically Milled GdAl2, C. Stark, P.M. Shand, T.M. Pekarek, D. Williams, R. Brown, L. Yue, D.L. Leslie-Pelecky, American Journal of Undergraduate Research, 1, 27 (2002)
• High-Temperature Properties of Mechanically Alloyed SmCo5 and YCo5, I.A. Al-Omari, R. Skomski, R. A. Thomas, D.L. Leslie-Pelecky and D.J. Sellmyer, IEEE Trans. Magn. 37, 2534-2536 (2001)
• Cooperative Freezing in Spin Glasses and Magnetic Nanostructures, Ralph Skomski and D. Leslie-Pelecky, J. Appl. Phys. 89, 7036-7038 (2001)
• Grain Size Effects on the Magnetic Properties of Chemically Synthesized Ni:Ni3C Nanocomposites, M. J. Bonder, E.M. Kirkpatrick, T. Martin, S.-J. Kim, R.D. Rieke and Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky; J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 222, 70-78 (2001)
• Magnetic Properties of Disordered Ni3C, Lanping Yue, R. Sabirianov, E.M. Kirkpatrick, Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky; Phys. Rev. B 62, 8969-8975 (2000).
• Structural and Magnetic Properties of Mechanically Milled SmCo5:C”, E.M. Kirkpatrick and Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky; J. Appl. Phys. 87, 6734-6736 (2000).
• Magnetic and Structural Properties of Chemically Synthesized Mg-Co Alloys, E.M. Kirkpatrick, Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky, S.-H. Kim and Reuben D. Rieke; J. Appl. Phys. 85, 5375-5377 (1999).
• Room-Temperature Ageing Effects on the Magnetic Properties of Mechanically Milled SmCo, Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky, E.M. Kirkpatrick and R.L. Schalek; Nanostruct. Mater. 12, 887-890 (1999).
• Effect of Disorder on the Magnetic Properties of SmCo5, Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky and Richard L. Schalek; Phys. Rev. B 59, 457-462 (1999).
• Using High-Temperature Chemical Synthesis to Produce Metastable Nanostructured Cobalt, Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky, M. Bonder, T. Martin, E.M. Kirkpatrick, Yi Liu, X.Q. Zhang, S.-H. Kim and Reuben D. Rieke; Chem. Mater. 10, 3732-3736 (1998).
• Chemical Synthesis of Nanostructured Cobalt at Elevated Temperatures, Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky, M. Bonder, T. Martin, E.M. Kirkpatrick, X.Q. Zhang, S.-H. Kim and Reuben D. Rieke; IEEE Trans. Magn. 34, 1018-1020 (1998).
• Structural Properties of Chemically Synthesized Nanostructured Nickel and Ni3C:Ni Nanocomposites, Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky, X.Q. Zhang, S.H. Kim, M. Bonder and Reuben D. Rieke; Chem. Mater. 13(1) 164-171 (1998).
• Magnetic Properties of Nanostructured Materials, Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky and Reuben D. Rieke (review paper); Chemistry of Materials 8(8), 1770-1783 (1996).
• Self-Stabilized Magnetic Colloids:  Ultrafine Co Particles in Polymers, Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky, X.Q. Zhang and R.D. Rieke; J. Appl. Phys. 79, 5312-5314 (1996).
• Tailoring of the Magnetic Properties of SmCo5:NbCr2 Nanocomposites Using Mechanical Alloying, Richard L. Schalek, Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky, John Knight, D.J. Sellmyer and Steven C. Axtell; IEEE Trans. Mag. 31, 3772-3774 (1995).