ABSTRACT
Magnetic nanostructured materials are of scienti c interest both from a fundamental point of view and because of their potential in a wide range of emerging applications. Nanomagnets, by virtue of their extremely small size, possess both static and dynamic properties that are quantitatively and qualitatively very di erent from their parent bulk material. e magnetization reversal mechanism can therefore be drastically modi ed in nanomagnets con ned to sizes that preclude the formation of domain walls. Topical reviews on the magnetic properties of nanostructures can be found in articles by Bader (2006), Srajer et al. (2006), Bader et al. (2007), Adeyeye et al. (2008), and Adeyeye and Singh (2008).
