Supramolecular control of the magnetic anisotropy in two-dimensional high-spin Fe arrays at a metal interface

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 189-193

  Gambardella, Pietro ^a,b,c   Stepanow, Sebastian ^a,d   Dmitriev, Alexandre ^d,e   Honolka, Jan ^d   De Groot, Frank M F ^f   Lingenfelder, Magalí ^d   Gupta, Subhra Sen ^g   Sarma, D D ^g   Bencok, Peter ^h   Stanescu, Stefan ^h   Clair, Sylvain ^c   Pons, Stéphane ^c   Lin, Nian ^d   Seitsonen, Ari P ⁱ   Brune, Harald ^c   Barth, Johannes V ^j   Kern, Klaus ^c,d  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^e CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^h EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^j TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ATOMS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; GAS ADSORPTION; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETISM; QUANTUM THEORY; SUBSTRATES; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

1 ,4-BENZENEDICARBOXYLIC ACID; COORDINATION BONDS; EASY MAGNETIZATION DIRECTIONS; ELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; LOCAL MAGNETIC MOMENTS; METALLIC THIN FILMS; SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES; SUPRAMOLECULAR LAYERS;

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY;

EID: 60749132426     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2376     Document Type: Article

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