Spintronics aims to go beyond the charge-based paradigm of silicon-based microelectronics
by utilizing the spin degree of freedom for memory, storage and computing applications …

The discovery of the spin-torque effect has made magnetic nanodevices realistic candidates
for active elements of memory devices and applications. Magnetoresistive effects allow the …

Heusler compounds are a remarkable class of materials with more than 1000 members and
a wide range of extraordinary multi-functionalities including halfmetallic high-temperature …

We describe the general mechanism of tetragonal distortion in Heusler compounds X 2 YZ.
From 286 compounds studied using density-functional theory, 62% are found to be …

New magnetic materials with high Curie temperatures for spintronic applications are
perpetually sought for. In this paper, we present an ab initio study of the structural, electronic …

In this paper, we study and discuss the ab initio method and Monte Carlo simulations of the
Fe 2 MnSn full Heusler alloy for the both structures: XA and L2 1. In fact, we have computed …

The structural stability, band structure, density of states (DOS), magnetic and mechanical
properties of Co-based equiatomic quaternary Heusler alloys (EQHAs) CoYCrZ (Z= Si, Ge …

As one large family of intermetallic compounds, Heusler compounds offer a wide playground
for novel materials design because of their wide range of compositions and tunable …

For alloys with nanoprecipitate/matrix microstructures, the lattice coherency between the two
phases plays an important role in determining the mechanical performances at high …

The elastic properties, phase stability, and magnetism and correlations among them in all-d-
metal Heusler compounds, ie, Ni 2 Mn T (T= Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta, and W) were …