Emerging magnetic order in platinum atomic contacts and chains

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Strigl, Florian ^a   Espy, Christopher ^a   Bückle, Maximilian ^a   Scheer, Elke ^a   Pietsch, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; PLATINUM; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLATINUM;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATOM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84955058972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7172     Document Type: Article

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