Structure, morphology, and magnetic properties of Fe nanoparticles deposited onto single-crystalline surfaces

• Armin Kleibert,
• Wolfgang Rosellen,
• Mathias Getzlaff and
• Joachim Bansmann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 47–56, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.6

• combined approach of X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to shed light on the complex and size-dependent relation between magnetic properties, crystallographic structure, orientation and morphology. In

• ) RHEED to get access to their crystallographic structure and orientation and (iii) STM to observe their real space morphology on the substrate. The goal of the manuscript is to correlate the structure and the morphology of deposited iron nanoparticles with their magnetic properties. Experimental

• ., tetragonal lattice distortions. Thus, to shed more light on these findings, it is essential to directly study the structure of the particles upon deposition onto a single crystalline substrate. To assess the crystallographic structure and orientation of supported particles in situ, RHEED [57] was used. A