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The structural and magnetic properties of the small binary clusters Fe m Y n (with m + n = 7, Y = Ru, Rh, Pd, Pt) were studied through extensive ab initio calculations, by means of the fully unconstrained version of the density-functional method, as implemented in the SIESTA code, within the generalized gradient approximation. The lowest energy state geometries, the chemical ordering, and the electronic and the magnetic structures were calculated. We found that the lowest energy geometrical structures for the pure Ru, Rh, Pd, Pt, and Fe heptamers, are a cube without an apex, a triangular prism capped on a square face, a decahedron, a side capped double square, and a decahedron, respectively. Starting from these geometries of the pure element heptamers, we followed the changes in the geometric structure as a function of the chemical composition. We analyzed all the different chemical arrangements, which depend on the particular geometry, and magnetic moment orientations, in the whole range of compositions. In general, there are important modifications to the magnetic moment of the Y atoms as soon as one of them is substituted by an Fe atom in the cluster. In contrast, under the same circumstances, the Fe magnetic moment takes values larger than 3 μ B and keeps almost this value, insensitive to the structure, composition and chemical order of the system.
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Montejano-Carrizales, J., Aguilera-Granja, F. & Morán-López, J. Structural and magnetic properties of FemYn (m + n = 7, Y = Ru, Rh, Pd, and Pt) nanoalloys. Eur. Phys. J. D 64, 53–62 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2011-20178-0
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