Room-temperature magnetic order on zigzag edges of narrow graphene nanoribbons

Nature

Volumn 514, Issue 7524, 2014, Pages 608-611

  Magda, Gábor Zsolt ^a   Jin, Xiaozhan ^b   Hagymási, Imre ^c,d   Vancsó, Péter ^a   Osváth, Zoltán ^a   Nemes Incze, Péter ^a   Hwang, Chanyong ^b   Biró, László P ^a   Tapasztó, Levente ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNICAL PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Hungary)

^b Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

^c WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE NANORIBBON; NANORIBBON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DENSITY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; HYBRIDIZATION; MAGNETISM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOFABRICATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84908431587     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13831     Document Type: Article

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