Magnetic order in a frustrated two-dimensional atom lattice at a semiconductor surface

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Li, Gang ^a   Höpfner, Philipp ^a   Schäfer, Jörg ^a   Blumenstein, Christian ^a   Meyer, Sebastian ^a   Bostwick, Aaron ^b   Rotenberg, Eli ^b   Claessen, Ralph ^a   Hanke, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ELECTRON; GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC FIELD; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATOM; ELECTRON; EXCITATION; MAGNETISM; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIMULATION;

EID: 84875905394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2617     Document Type: Article

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