• 文献标题:   Adatoms and Clusters of 3d Transition Metals on Graphene: Electronic and Magnetic Configurations
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   EELBO T, WASNIOWSKA M, THAKUR P, GYAMFI M, SACHS B, WEHLING TO, FORTI S, STARKE U, TIEG C, LICHTENSTEIN AI, WIESENDANGER R
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Hamburg
  • 被引频次:   124
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.136804
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

We investigate the electronic and magnetic properties of single Fe, Co, and Ni atoms and clusters on monolayer graphene (MLG) on SiC(0001) by means of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), x-ray absorption spectroscopy, x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), and ab initio calculations. STM reveals different adsorption sites for Ni and Co adatoms. XMCD proves Fe and Co adatoms to be paramagnetic and to exhibit an out-of-plane easy axis in agreement with theory. In contrast, we experimentally find a nonmagnetic ground state for Ni monomers while an increasing cluster size leads to sizeable magnetic moments. These observations are well reproduced by our calculations and reveal the importance of hybridization effects and intra-atomic charge transfer for the properties of adatoms and clusters on MLG. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.136804