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Surface physics, thin films

Magnetic anisotropy of graphene-coated thin iron films

S. M. Dunaevskii^ab, E. Yu. Lobanova^c, E. K. Mikhailenko^ab, I. I. Pronin<sup>cd

a</sup> The Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, The National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute"
^b Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI"
^c St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics
^d Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg

Abstract: The ab initio calculations of the magnetic anisotropy of thin (to six monolayers) nickel films and iron films with unusual fcc structures formed upon intercalation of graphene with Fe atoms are presented. The data have been obtained for both the pure-surface films and the films coated with graphene. The density functional theory and the pseudopotential method are used to calculate the magnetic moments of atoms of all the layers and to determine the total energies of the structures with different orientations of magnetic moments of iron and nickel atoms with respect to the film surface. A strong influence of graphene on the magnetic properties contacting iron films is demonstrated.

Received: 26.02.2019
Revised: 26.02.2019
Accepted: 26.02.2019

DOI: 10.21883/FTT.2019.07.47853.401

 English version: Physics of the Solid State, 2019, 61:7, 1310–1315

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