Uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy of metal/semiconductor interfaces: Fe/ZnSe(001)

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 26, 2002, Pages

  Sjöstedt, Elisabeth ^a   Nordström, Lars ^a   Gustavsson, Fredrik ^a   Eriksson, Olle ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; IRON; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIZATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; SURFACE TREATMENT;

ATOMIC RELAXATION; COVALENT BONDS; LATTICE MATCHING; SPIN POLARIZATION; UNIAXIAL MAGNETOCRYSTALLINE ANISOTROPY; ZINC SELENIUM ALLOYS;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 4243225282     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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