A proposal for an alternative class of spin filter materials: Hybridization-induced high-TC ferromagnetic semiconductors CoVXAl (X = Ti, Zr, Hf)

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 14, 2013, Pages

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

^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

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS;

AB-INITIO ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS; DELTA E; EXCHANGE SPLITTING; FERROMAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTOR; HEUSLER COMPOUND; HIGH-TC; SPIN FILTERS; SPINTRONICS DEVICE;

FERROMAGNETISM;

EID: 84885661707     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4823820     Document Type: Article

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