Electronic, structural, and magnetic properties of the half-metallic ferromagnetic quaternary Heusler compounds CoFeMnZ (Z=Al, Ga, Si, Ge)

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 22, 2011, Pages

  Alijani, Vajiheh ^a   Ouardi, Siham ^a   Fecher, Gerhard H ^a   Winterlik, Jürgen ^a   Naghavi, S Shahab ^a   Kozina, Xeniya ^a   Stryganyuk, Gregory ^a   Felser, Claudia ^a   Ikenaga, Eiji ^b   Yamashita, Yoshiyuki ^c   Ueda, Shigenori ^c   Kobayashi, Keisuke ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

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EID: 84855338943     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.224416     Document Type: Article

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