Appearance of half-metallicity in the quaternary Heusler alloys

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 3089-3096

  Galanakis, I ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; CALCULATIONS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHROMIUM ALLOYS; ELECTRONS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METAL SPINNING;

HALF-METALLICITY; HEUSLER ALLOYS; SPIN MOMENT; VALENCE ELECTRONS;

METALLIZING;

EID: 2442712535     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/16/18/010     Document Type: Article

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