Magnetism and work function of Ni-Cu alloys as metal gates

Rare Metals

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 130-134

  Cheng, Yanming ^a   Zheng, Yongping ^a   Huang, Xu ^a   Zhong, Kehua ^a   Chen, Zhigao ^a   Huang, Zhigao ^a  

^a FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

First principles; Magnetism; Work function

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE MAGNETIC MOMENTS; CU ATOMS; FIRST PRINCIPLES; FIRST PRINCIPLES METHOD; METAL GATE; NI ATOMS; NI-CU ALLOY; SUPER CELL; SURFACE ORIENTATION;

ATOMS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETISM; WORK FUNCTION;

COPPER ALLOYS;

EID: 84861386266     PISSN: 10010521     EISSN: 18677185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12598-012-0477-8     Document Type: Article

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