Structural variants and the modified Slater-Pauling curve for transition-metal-based half-Heusler alloys

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Shaughnessy, M ^a   Damewood, L ^a   Fong, C Y ^a   Yang, L H ^b   Felser, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC CONFIGURATION; FACE-CENTERED CUBE; HALF-HEUSLER ALLOYS; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; NEGATIVE MOMENTS; NON-FERROMAGNETIC; NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES;

ALLOYS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; FORECASTING; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MANGANESE; TRANSITION METALS;

CERIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84873665940     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4788825     Document Type: Article

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