Search for spin gapless semiconductors: The case of inverse Heusler compounds

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Skaftouros, S ^a   Ozdogan K ^b   Sasoglu E ^c,d   Galanakis, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB-INITIO ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS; HEUSLER COMPOUND; HIGH CURIE TEMPERATURE; SEMICONDUCTING BEHAVIOR; SPIN-DOWN BAND; SPIN-POLARIZED CARRIERS; SPIN-UP; SPINTRONICS APPLICATION;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE;

BAND STRUCTURE;

EID: 84872689766     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4775599     Document Type: Article

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