Experimental and theoretical study of electron-beam-induced spin-reorientation transition reversal in the CO/Co(110) system

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 45, Issue 27, 2012, Pages

  Reeve, Robert M ^a   Chin, Shin Liang ^a,b   Kopper, Klaus Peter ^a   Ionescu, Adrian ^a   Barnes, Crispin H W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROENGINEERING AND NANOELECTRONICS IMEN   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO COVERAGE; CO FILMS; CU(1 1 0); DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; ELECTRON-BEAM EXPOSURE; IN-SITU; INITIAL VALUES; MAGNETO-OPTICAL KERR EFFECTS; ORTHOGONAL AXIS; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; RESIDUAL GAS; SECONDARY ELECTRONS; SPIN REORIENTATION TRANSITIONS; SURFACE ADSORBATES; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADSORPTION; COBALT; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON BEAMS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; POLARIZATION;

MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL;

EID: 84862749924     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/45/27/275003     Document Type: Article

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