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6. Conclusion

Magnetic monolayers offer a huge playground for the basic understanding of magnetic interactions. To obtain reliable data it is all-important to consider the temperature and thickness dependence of the magnetic quantities which are investigated. Magnetic monolayers -when prepared under proper conditions- are magnetically alive! There are no non-magnetic monolayers. The experiment has to be capable of detecting the remanent magnetic state of low dimensional systems in situ in UHV at low temperatures which remains a challenging task.

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