New insights into nanomagnetism: Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy studies

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8100, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Oka, Hirofumi ^a   Rodary, Guillemin ^a,b   Wedekind, Sebastian ^a   Ignatiev, Pavel A ^a   Niebergall, Larissa ^a   Stepanyuk, Valeri S ^a   Sander, Dirk ^a   Kirschner, Jürgen ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Co islands; Cu(111); Electron confinement; Magnetic hysteresis loop; Nanomagnetism; Spin polarization; Spin polarized scanning tunneling microscopy; Spin polarized scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CO ISLANDS; CU(111); ELECTRON CONFINEMENT; NANOMAGNETISMS; SPIN-POLARIZED; SPIN-POLARIZED SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

CALCULATIONS; HYSTERESIS LOOPS; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; NANOMAGNETICS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; SPECTROSCOPY; SPIN DYNAMICS; SPIN POLARIZATION;

SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 80053478085     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.892459     Document Type: Conference Paper

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