We demonstrate that the deposition of a self-assembled monolayer of alkanethiolates on a 1 nm thick cobalt ultrathin film grown on Au(111) induces a spin reorientation transition from in-plane to out-of-plane magnetization. ...

We have performed ab initio density functional theory calculations to investigate the formation energy and the effects of low dimensionality and reduced coordination on the magnetic properties of pseudomorphically grown ...

We have used density-functional theory to study the miscibility and magnetic properties of surface alloys. Our systems consist of a single pseudomorphic layer of MxN1-x on the Ru(0001) surface, where M=Fe or Co, and N=Pt, ...