Substrate-controlled growth and magnetism of nanosize Fe clusters on Pt

Magnetism of Fe clusters and islands on Pt surfaces

Clusters and islands of Fe atoms have been prepared by noble gas buffer layer assisted growth as well as by standard molecular beam epitaxy on Pt substrates. Xe buffer layers have been utilized to promote the formation of compact, relaxed Fe clusters with narrow size distribution. Without the Xe buffer, strained Fe islands with a characteristic misfit dislocation network are formed. Magnetizati...

Magnetism of Fe clusters formed by buffer-layer assisted growth on Pt(997)

The growth and magnetism of nanometer size Fe clusters on stepped Pt surfaces is investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and magneto-optical Kerr effect measurements (MOKE). The clusters are formed on xenon buffer layers of varying thickness and then brought into contact with the substrate by thermal desorption of the Xe. The cluster size is controlled by the thickness of the Xe lay...

Magnetism of close packed Fe 147 clusters

We present ab initio density functional theory calculations of the magnetic structure of perfectly cuboctahedral nanoparticles consisting of 147 iron atoms. The results are compared to geometrically relaxed cuboctahedral and icosahedral Fe147-clusters. It is found, that structural relaxation leads to a compression, which reduces especially the moments of the central atoms of the cluster, while ...

Noncollinear magnetism of Cr clusters on Fe surfaces

The magnetic properties of small Cr clusters on Fe surfaces have been investigated using a self-consistent noncollinear spd tight-binding method, parametrized through ab initio tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital results. A competition between antiferromagnetic coupling within the cluster and antiferromagnetic coupling with the Fe surface has been found, leading to noncollinear magnetic arr...

Structure and magnetism of atomically thin Fe layers on flat and vicinal Pt surfaces