Noble metal capping effects on the spin-reorientation transitions of Co/Ru(0001)

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  El Gabaly, Farid ^a,b   McCarty, Kevin F ^c   Schmid, Andreas K ^b   De La Figuera, Juan ^a,d   Muñoz, M Carmen ^e   Szunyogh, Laszlo ^f   Weinberger, Peter ^g   Gallego, Silvia ^e  

^a CENTRO DE MICROANÁLISIS DE MATERIALES   (Spain)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^f BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^g Center for Computational Nanoscience Vienna   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONS; MAGNETISM; PRECIOUS METALS; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC EFFECTS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY ENERGY; MAGNETIZATION ORIENTATION; OVERLAYER THICKNESS; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; SPIN REORIENTATION TRANSITIONS; SPIN-POLARIZED LOW ENERGY ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES;

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY;

EID: 47349094015     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/7/073024     Document Type: Article

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