Mn3Ga, a compensated ferrimagnet with high Curie temperature and low magnetic moment for spin torque transfer applications

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Balke, Benjamin ^a   Fecher, Gerhard H ^a   Winterlik, Jürgen ^a   Felser, Claudia ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURIE TEMPERATURE; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FERMI LEVEL; FERRIMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION; SPIN POLARIZATION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TORQUE CONTROL;

AVERAGE SATURATION MAGNETIZATION; BINARY COMPOUNDS; ENERGY PRODUCTS; FERRIMAGNETIC ORDER;

MANGANESE COMPOUNDS;

EID: 34247232192     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2722206     Document Type: Article

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