Heusler compounds - A material class with exceptional properties

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 47, Issue 2 PART 2, 2011, Pages 367-373

  Graf, Tanja ^a   Parkin, Stuart S P ^b   Felser, Claudia ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Half metallic ferromagnets; Heusler compounds; Spintronics; Topological insulators

Indexed keywords

HALF METALLIC FERROMAGNETS; HEUSLER COMPOUND; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY; SPINTRONICS; STRUCTURE , PROPERTIES; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS;

ELECTRIC INSULATORS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TOPOLOGY;

FERROMAGNETISM;

EID: 79251478037     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2010.2096229     Document Type: Article

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