Reaching the magnetic anisotropy limit of a 3d metal atom

Science

Volumn 344, Issue 6187, 2014, Pages 988-992

  Rau, Ileana G ^a   Baumann, Susanne ^a,b   Rusponi, Stefano ^c   Donati, Fabio ^c   Stepanow, Sebastian ^d   Gragnaniello, Luca ^c   Dreiser, Jan ^c,e   Piamonteze, Cinthia ^e   Nolting, Frithjof ^e   Gangopadhyay, Shruba ^a   Albertini, Oliver R ^a,f   Macfarlane, Roger M ^a   Lutz, Christopher P ^a   Jones, Barbara A ^a   Gambardella, Pietro ^d   Heinrich, Andreas J ^a   Brune, Harald ^c  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ADSORPTION; FILM; LIGAND; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIZATION; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84901586586     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1252841     Document Type: Article

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