Engineering the electronic, magnetic, and gap-related properties of the quinternary half-metallic Heusler alloys

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Ozdogan K ^a   Sasioglu E ^b,c   Galanakis, I ^d  

^a GEBZE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; FERMI LEVEL; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES;

CRYSTAL APPROXIMATION; QUINTERNARY HALF-METALLIC HEUSLER ALLOYS;

COBALT ALLOYS;

EID: 38849171068     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2831224     Document Type: Article

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