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Transition metal phthalocyanines (TMPc's) are under intense scrutiny in the field of spintronics, as they may be promising storage devices. The simplicity and cheapness of such molecules increase their commercial potential. There is an…
In this paper, we have done a comparative study of electronic and magnetic properties of iron phthalocyanine (FePc) and cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPc) molecules physisorbed on monolayer of MoS$_2$ and graphene by using density functional…
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Doping of the graphene lattice with transition metal atoms resulting in high magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) is an important goal of materials research owing to its potential application in spintronics. In this article, by using…
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Iron phthalocyanine (FePc) is a molecular semiconductor whose building blocks are one-dimensional ferromagnetic chains. We show that its optical and magnetic properties are controlled by the growth strategy, obtaining extremely high…
Epitaxial graphene/ferromagnetic metal (Gr/FM) heterostructures deposited onto heavy metals (HM) have been proposed for the realization of novel spintronic devices because of their perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and sizeable…
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