Probing Unconventional Spin Configurations in Molecular Interfaces

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Only a few elements are ferromagnetic and the most common are iron, cobalt and nickel. These elements satisfy a condition, called the Stoner criterion, which determines whether materials are ferromagnetic. Recently, a different class of ferromagnetic materials based on alternating ultrathin layers of carbon-60 (C60, also called Buckminster-fullerenes or “Buckyballs”) and non-magnetic metals (e.g. copper or Cu), have exhibited the signatures of ferromagnetism. This development may lead to entirely new ways of understanding magnetic ordering and use of magnetic materials in information technology. The magnetism is associated with the number of interfaces of C60 and Cu, and key issue in understanding the origin of this unusual ferromagnetism is how the ferromagnetism decays away from the interfaces. Neutron scattering is the ideal tool to answer this intriguing question.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.86389956
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/86389956
Provenance
Creator Ms Jenae Shoup; Professor Dario Arena; Dr Gavin Burnell; Professor Sean Langridge; Dr Oscar Cespedes; Mr Matthew Rogers; Dr Christy Kinane
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-05-08T07:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-05-13T09:34:21Z