Nanopatterning magnetic materials - Cr/Mo(110) epitaxial system and Fe3O4(111) surface

Abstract

This thesis presents the investigation of the Cr/Mo(110) epitaxial interface. The study combines experimental techniques in the form of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), low energy electron diffraction (LEED), and Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) and theoretical investigations by means of first-principles density functional theory (DFT). The Cr/Mo(110) system is compared with the closely related Fe/Mo(110), Cr/W(110), and Fe/W(110) systems.