Slater-Pauling behavior and origin of the half-metallicity of the full-Heusler alloys

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 1744291-1744299

  Galanakis, I ^a   Dederichs, P H ^a   Papanikolaou, N ^b,c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

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ALLOY; COBALT; IRON; RHENIUM; RUTHENIUM;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ELECTRON; ENERGY; MAGNETISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0036871441     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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