A first-principles study of half-metallic ferromagnetism in binary alkaline-earth nitrides with rock-salt structure

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 372, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1512-1515

  Gao, G Y ^a   Yao, K L ^a,b   Liu, Z L ^a   Zhang, J ^a   Min, Y ^a   Fan, S W ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MATERIALS PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Alkaline earth metals; First principles calculations; Half metallic ferromagnetism

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE EARTH METALS; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FERROMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; NITRIDES; ROCKS; SALT DEPOSITS; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

FIRST PRINCIPLES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDY; FULL POTENTIAL LINEARIZED AUGMENTED PLANE WAVE METHOD; HALF-METALLIC CHARACTERS; HALF-METALLIC FERROMAGNETISM; ROCK SALT STRUCTURES; ZINC-BLENDE STRUCTURES;

BARIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 38849185250     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2007.09.064     Document Type: Article

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