Heusler alloys for spintronic devices: review on recent development and future perspectives

K Elphick, W Frost, M Samiepour, T Kubota… - … and technology of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Heusler alloys are theoretically predicted to become half-metals at room temperature (RT).
The advantages of using these alloys are good lattice matching with major substrates, high …

Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in Heusler alloy films and their magnetoresistive junctions

A Hirohata, W Frost, M Samiepour, J Kim - Materials, 2018 - mdpi.com
For the sustainable development of spintronic devices, a half-metallic ferromagnetic film
needs to be developed as a spin source with exhibiting 100% spin polarisation at its Fermi …

A comparative study of physical and thermoelectrical characteristics of the new full‐Heusler alloys Ag2TiGa and Ag2VGa with ab initio calculations

IA Elkoua, R Masrour - International Journal of Quantum …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper will focus on the comparative study of the structural, electronic, magnetic, optical,
and thermoelectric properties of the two Heusler systems Ag2TiGa and Ag2VGa in the …

Observation of uniaxial magnetic anisotropy and out-of-plane coercivity in W/Co20Fe60B20/W structures with high thermal stability

L Saravanan, NK Gupta, L Pandey, IP Kokila… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, the development of uniaxial magnetic anisotropy (UMA) and out-of-plane
coercivity (H c┴) in W/Co 20 Fe 60 B 20 (CoFeB)/W structures by tuning the annealing …

First-principles calculations to investigate electronic structure and magnetic, mechanical and thermodynamic properties of d0 half-Heusler LiXN (X= Na, K, Rb) alloys

AR Mishra, S Pal - Solid State Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Density functional theory (DFT) incorporating GGA-PBE approximation has been
implemented to study structural, electronic, magnetic, mechanical and thermodynamic …

The structural, electronic, magnetic and mechanical properties of d0 binary Heusler alloys XF3 (X= Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba)

Y Zhou, JM Zhang, YH Huang, XM Wei - … of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 2020 - Elsevier
The first-principles calculations within generalized gradient approximation (GGA) method
are employed to study the structural, electronic, magnetic and mechanical properties of d 0 …

Tailoring magnetic properties of CoFeB films via tungsten buffer and cap** layers

L Saravanan, NK Gupta, C Garcia… - Journal of Magnetism and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Controlling the interface between W and CoFeB-based buffer or cap** layers at an
appropriate temperature is essential for modifying the strength of magnetic anisotropy. In this …

Low-temperature crystallisation of Heusler alloy films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

W Frost, M Samiepour, A Hirohata - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic …, 2019 - Elsevier
We demonstrate that perpendicular anisotropy can be induced in Co 2 FeAl 0.5 Si 0.5 by
depositing the Heusler alloy on a tungsten seed layer. This is increased by elevating the …

Annealing effects and perpendicular magnetic properties of sputtered Co2FeSi alloy films

K Wang, X **ao, ZK Xu, L Wu, J Liu - Applied Physics A, 2021 - Springer
A series of Co2FeSi (CFS) films sandwiched by MgO and Pt layers are sputtered. For the as-
deposited films, the magnetic easy axis lies in the sample plane. After annealing …

Current-induced crystallisation in Heusler alloy films for memory potentiation in neuromorphic computation

W Frost, K Elphick, M Samiepour, A Hirohata - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The current information technology has been developed based on von Neumann type
computation. In order to sustain the rate of development, it is essential to investigate …