Half-metallicity at the (110) interface between a full Heusler alloy and GaAs

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Nagao, Kazutaka ^a   Miura, Yoshio ^a   Shirai, Masafumi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 33645469007     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.104447     Document Type: Article

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