Itinerant half-metallic ferromagnets Co2 TiZ (Z=Si, Ge, Sn ): Ab initio calculations and measurement of the electronic structure and transport properties

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Barth, Joachim ^a   Fecher, Gerhard H ^a   Balke, Benjamin ^a   Ouardi, Siham ^a   Graf, Tanja ^a   Felser, Claudia ^a   Shkabko, Andrey ^b   Weidenkaff, Anke ^b   Klaer, Peter ^a   Elmers, Hans J ^a   Yoshikawa, Hideki ^c   Ueda, Shigenori ^c   Kobayashi, Keisuke ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

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EID: 77954832853     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.064404     Document Type: Article

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