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Magnetic Anisotropy of Graphene-Coated Thin Iron Films

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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.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to the Computer Centers of the National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” at the Konstantinov Institute of Nuclear Physics and St. Petersburg Polytechnic University for computer resources.

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E.Yu. Lobanova was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (task 3.3161.2017/4.6 of the project part of the state task).

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  1. Konstantinov Nuclear Physics Institute, National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, 188300, Gatchina, Leningrad oblast, Russia

    S. M. Dunaevskii & E. K. Mikhailenko

  2. St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University LETI, 197022, St. Petersburg, Russia

    S. M. Dunaevskii & E. K. Mikhailenko

  3. National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics, and Optics, 197101, St. Petersburg, Russia

    E. Yu. Lobanova & I. I. Pronin

  4. Ioffe Institute, 194021, St. Petersburg, Russia

    I. I. Pronin

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Dunaevskii, S.M., Lobanova, E.Y., Mikhailenko, E.K. et al. Magnetic Anisotropy of Graphene-Coated Thin Iron Films. Phys. Solid State 61, 1310–1315 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783419070072

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