Lanthanide contraction and magnetism in the heavy rare earth elements

Nature

Volumn 446, Issue 7136, 2007, Pages 650-653

  Hughes, I D ^a   Dane M ^b   Ernst, A ^c   Hergert, W ^b   Luders M ^d   Poulter, J ^e   Staunton, J B ^a   Svane, A ^f   Szotek, Z ^d   Temmerman, W M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^d DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^f AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; LANTHANIDE;

CONTRACTION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; RARE EARTH ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CELL NUCLEUS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 34247205420     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05668     Document Type: Article

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