Rhodium monolayer on gold: A 4d ferromagnet

Atomic under-coordination fascinated catalytic and magnetic behavior of Pt and Rh nanoclusters

Atomic under-coordination fascinated catalytic and magnetic properties of Pt and Rh nanoclusters have been studied by DFT calculations, and consistency with the calculation and experimental results confirmed predications based on BOLS correlation.

Large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of ultrathin Ru and Rh films on a NiAl(001) surface

Using the full potential linearized augmented plane wave (FLAPW) method, the magnetic properties of two-dimensional Ru and Rh monolayers (MLs) on a NiAl(001) surface have been investigated. It has been found that free standing one monolayer Ru and Rh films have ferromagnetic ground state with magnetic moments of 2.21 and 1.48 μ(B), respectively. The ferromagnetism is still observed even on a Ni terminated NiAl(001) surface, while no magnetic state is found on an Al terminated surface. The calculated magnetic moments of Ru and Rh atoms are 1.56 and 0.88 μ(B), respectively. In addition, an induced magnetic moment in surface Ni is observed. It has been found that the free standing Ru film has perpendicular magnetization to the film surface with a magnetocrystalline anisotropy (MCA) energy of 0.66 meV/atom, while an in-plane MCA energy of 0.37 meV/atom is achieved in Rh film. Very interestingly, we find that both Ru/NiAl(001) and Rh/NiAl(001) films have perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and the calculated MCA energies are 0.66 and 1.11 meV in Ru/NiAl(001) and Rh/NiAl(001), respectively. Along with the magnetic anisotropy, we have presented theoretically calculated x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) results.

First-principles investigation of magnetism of U films and U(001)(1)/Fe(110)(3) multilayers

The magnetism of surfaces and interfaces can differ strongly from the magnetism of corresponding bulk materials. In the case of actinide systems the study of the surfaces and interfaces is still at the very beginning. In this work, we investigated the electronic and magnetic properties of U films and U(001)(1)/Fe(110)(3) multilayers within the framework of the density functional theory. We report both scalar-relativistic and fully relativistic calculations. The exchange correlation potential was treated in the generalized gradient approximation (GGA). In agreement with previous calculation by Stojić et al (2003 Phys. Rev. B 68 094407) we obtained the surface layer of the U films to be magnetic for the bulk lattice parameter. The dependence of the magnetic properties of the U films on the lattice parameter was studied. It is shown that decreasing distances between U atoms lead to decreasing magnetic moment and finally to the nonmagnetic ground state. The variation of the magnetic moment as a function of the lattice parameter is discontinuous. Using the frozen-magnon approach we evaluated the parameters of the inter-atomic exchange interactions and estimated the Curie temperature. The calculation for U(001)(1)/Fe(110)(3) multilayers showed that the U layer is magnetic with the direction of the U moments opposite to the Fe moments. The importance of the U-Fe hybridization is revealed. Both the intra-layer (U-U, Fe-Fe) and inter-layer (U-Fe) exchange interactions were evaluated. The temperature dependence of the layer magnetizations was studied within the random-phase approximation for the Heisenberg Hamiltonian for classical spins.

Surface ferromagnetism of Pd fine particles

We report clear evidence of the ferromagnetism of gas-evaporated Pd fine particles with a clean surface. The clean Pd particle is found to have a magnetic heterostructure: the surface of the particle is ferromagnetic and the rest is paramagnetic. The size dependence of the magnetic saturation component reveals that the ferromagnetic ordering occurs only on (100) facets of the particle and that the topmost two to five layers from the surface contribute to the ferromagnetism with a magnetic moment of (0.75+/-0.31)micro(B)/atom.