Tensile strain switched ferromagnetism in layered NbS2 and NbSe2

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 9727-9736

  Zhou, Yungang ^a,b   Wang, Zhiguo ^a   Yang, Ping ^b   Zu, Xiaotao ^a   Yang, Li ^a   Sun, Xin ^b   Gao, Fei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

biaxial strain; density functional theory; magnetism; NbS2; NbSe2

Indexed keywords

BIAXIAL STRAINS; BIAXIAL TENSILE; COMPETITIVE EFFECTS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; EXCHANGE SPLITTING; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; FERROMAGNETIC CHARACTER; HALF-METALLIC CHARACTERS; MAGNETIC HOMOGENEITIES; MAGNETIC NANOSTRUCTURES; MAGNETIC SHEETS; MAGNETIC STATE; NB ATOMS; NBS2; NBSE2; ORBITALS; QUANTUM INFORMATION DEVICE; RECENT PROGRESS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SELF-EXCHANGE; SERIES OF TRANSITION; SPIN MOMENTS; THROUGH-BOND INTERACTIONS; THROUGH-SPACE INTERACTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL NANOSTRUCTURES;

CHEMICAL BONDS; GRAPHENE; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETISM; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM OPTICS; TRANSITION METALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

NIOBIUM; SELENIUM; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MECHANICAL STRESS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NIOBIUM; SELENIUM; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SULFUR; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84870424000     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn303198w     Document Type: Article

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