Giant magnetic anisotropy and tunnelling of the magnetization in Li 2(Li1-xFex)N

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Jesche, A ^a   McCallum, R W ^a,b   Thimmaiah, S ^a   Jacobs, J L ^a,c   Taufour, V ^c   Kreyssig, A ^a,c   Houk, R S ^a,c   Bud'Ko, S L ^a,c   Canfield, P C ^a,c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; IRON; LITHIUM DERIVATIVE;

LITHIUM; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIZATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TUNNELING;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYSTERESIS; MAGNET; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 84896862812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4333     Document Type: Article

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