Epitaxial growth, magnetic properties, and lattice dynamics of Fe nanoclusters on GaAs(001)

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Cuenya, B Roldan ^a   Naitabdi, A ^a   Schuster, E ^b   Peters, R ^b   Doi, M ^b,c   Keune, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 34548728501     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.094403     Document Type: Article

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