Ferrimagnetism in zigzag graphene nanoribbons induced by main-group adatoms

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Kan, Erjun ^a   Xiang, Hongjun ^b,c   Wu, Fang ^d   Lee, Changhoon ^a   Yang, Jinlong ^e   Whangbo, Myung Hwan ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Department of Physics ^*  (China)

^d NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; ELECTRIC DEVICES; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; NANO SCALE; SPINTRONICS;

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; FERRIMAGNETISM; FERROMAGNETISM; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ADATOMS;

EID: 77949692492     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3327884     Document Type: Article

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