Pt on graphene monolayers supported on a Ni(111) substrate: Relativistic density-functional calculations. Błoński, P. & Hafner, J. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 136(7):074701, February, 2012.
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The structural, energetic, and magnetic properties of Pt atoms and dimers adsorbed on a Ni-supported graphene layer have been investigated using density-functional calculations, including the influence of dispersion forces and of spin-orbit coupling.Dispersion forces are found to be essential to stabilize a chemisorbed graphene layer on the Ni(111) surface. The presence of the Ni-substrate leads not only to a stronger interaction of Pt atoms and dimers with graphene but also to a locally increased binding between graphene and the substrate and a complex reconstruction of the adlayer. The stronger binding of the dimer also stabilizes a flat adsorption geometry in contrast to the upright geometry on a free-standing graphene layer. These effects are further enhanced by dispersion corrections. Isolated Pt adatoms and flat dimers are found to be non-magnetic, while an upright Pt dimer has strongly anisotropic spin and orbital moments. For the clean C/Ni(111) system, we calculate an in-plane magnetic anisotropy, which is also conserved in the presence of isolated Pt adatoms. Surprisingly, upright Pt-dimers induce a re-orientation of the easy magnetic axis to a direction perpendicular to the surface, in analogy to Pt2 on a free-standing graphene layer and to the axial anisotropy of a gas-phase Pt2 dimer.
@article{blonski_pt_2012,
	title = {Pt on graphene monolayers supported on a {Ni}(111) substrate: {Relativistic} density-functional calculations},
	volume = {136},
	issn = {0021-9606, 1089-7690},
	shorttitle = {Pt on graphene monolayers supported on a {Ni}(111) substrate},
	url = {http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp/136/7/10.1063/1.3684891},
	doi = {10.1063/1.3684891},
	abstract = {The structural, energetic, and magnetic properties of Pt atoms and dimers adsorbed on a Ni-supported graphene layer have been investigated using density-functional calculations, including the influence of dispersion forces and of spin-orbit coupling.Dispersion forces are found to be essential to stabilize a chemisorbed graphene layer on the Ni(111) surface. The presence of the Ni-substrate leads not only to a stronger interaction of Pt atoms and dimers with graphene but also to a locally increased binding between graphene and the substrate and a complex reconstruction of the adlayer. The stronger binding of the dimer also stabilizes a flat adsorption geometry in contrast to the upright geometry on a free-standing graphene layer. These effects are further enhanced by dispersion corrections. Isolated Pt adatoms and flat dimers are found to be non-magnetic, while an upright Pt dimer has strongly anisotropic spin and orbital moments. For the clean C/Ni(111) system, we calculate an in-plane magnetic anisotropy, which is also conserved in the presence of isolated Pt adatoms. Surprisingly, upright Pt-dimers induce a re-orientation of the easy magnetic axis to a direction perpendicular to the surface, in analogy to Pt2 on a free-standing graphene layer and to the axial anisotropy of a gas-phase Pt2 dimer.},
	number = {7},
	urldate = {2013-12-11},
	journal = {The Journal of Chemical Physics},
	author = {Błoński, Piotr and Hafner, Jürgen},
	month = feb,
	year = {2012},
	keywords = {Atomic magnetic properties, Blonski, Dispersion, Spin orbit interactions, Strong interactions, adsorption, density functional theory, graphene, magnetic anisotropy, magnetic moments, nickel},
	pages = {074701},
}

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