Room-temperature ferromagnetism in graphite driven by two-dimensional networks of pointdefects

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 840-844

  Cervenka J ^a,c   Katsnelson, M I ^b   Flipse, C F J ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAPHITE; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; POINT DEFECTS; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

CARBON BASED MATERIALS; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; FERROMAGNETIC ORDERINGS; HIGHLY ORIENTED PYROLYTIC GRAPHITE; MAGNETIC ORDERING TEMPERATURES; ROOM TEMPERATURE FERROMAGNETISM; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL NETWORKS;

FERROMAGNETISM;

EID: 70449523327     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1399     Document Type: Article

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