Epitaxial ferromagnetic samarium and samarium silicide synthesized on Si(001)

Journal of Materials Science

Volumn 47, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 7225-7234

  Costescu, Ruxandra M ^a   Gheorghe, Nicoleta G ^a   Husanu, Marius A ^a   Lungu, George A ^a   MacOvei, Dan ^a   Pintilie, Ioana ^a   Popescu, Dana G ^a   Teodorescu, Cristian M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS PHYSICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON CONFIGURATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INTERFACE LAYER; INTERFACE REACTIVITY; IONIZATION STATE; MAGNETO-OPTICAL KERR EFFECTS; METAL SM; RESIDUAL GAS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ROOM TEMPERATURE FERROMAGNETISM; SI(0 0 1); SPIN-ORBIT SPLITTINGS;

FERROMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; PHOTOELECTRONS; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION; SILICIDES; SILICON; SINTERING; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

SAMARIUM;

EID: 84865248451     PISSN: 00222461     EISSN: 15734803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10853-012-6672-z     Document Type: Article

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