Vacancy induced half-metallicity in half-Heusler semiconductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Zhu, Zhiyong ^a   Cheng, Yingchun ^a   Schwingenschlögl, Udo ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

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EID: 80053611864     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.113201     Document Type: Article

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