Design scheme of new tetragonal heusler compounds for spin-transfer torque applications and its experimental realization

Advanced Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 47, 2012, Pages 6283-6287

  Winterlik, Jürgen ^a   Chadov, Stanislav ^b   Gupta, Arunava ^c   Alijani, Vajiheh ^b   Gasi, Teuta ^a   Filsinger, Kai ^a   Balke, Benjamin ^a   Fecher, Gerhard H ^b   Jenkins, Catherine A ^d   Casper, Frederick ^a   Kübler, Jürgen ^e   Liu, Guo Dong ^f   Gao, Li ^g   Parkin, Stuart S P ^g   Felser, Claudia ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

^c University of Alabama   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^g IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Heusler compounds; magnetic properties; spin transfer torques; spintronics

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; BAND STRUCTURE CALCULATION; DESIGN SCHEME; HEUSLER; HEUSLER COMPOUND; JAHN-TELLER; SPIN TRANSFER; SPIN TRANSFER TORQUE; SPINTRONIC APPLICATIONS; STRUCTURAL INSTABILITY; TETRAGONAL DISTORTION; TORQUE-BASED;

CALCULATIONS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETOELECTRONICS; MANGANESE;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84870950662     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201201879     Document Type: Article

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