Fe nanoclusters on the Ge(001) surface studied by scanning tunneling microscopy, density functional theory calculations and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism

Nano Research

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 971-978

  Lübben, Olaf ^a   Krasnikov, Sergey A ^a   Preobrajenski, Alexei B ^b   Murphy, Barry E ^a   Shvets, Igor V ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

density functional theory calculations; Ge(001); iron nanoclusters; scanning tunnelling microscopy; self assembly; X ray magnetic circular dichroism

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053442309     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-011-0153-6     Document Type: Article

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