Rare-earth mononitrides

F Natali, BJ Ruck, NOV Plank, HJ Trodahl… - Progress in Materials …, 2013 - Elsevier
When the rare earth mononitrides (RENs) first burst onto the scientific scene in the middle of
last century, there were feverish dreams that their strong magnetic moment would afford a …

Hybrid functionals and GW approximation in the FLAPW method

C Friedrich, M Betzinger, M Schlipf… - Journal of Physics …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present recent advances in numerical implementations of hybrid functionals and the GW
approximation within the full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave (FLAPW) method …

Electronic structure of rare-earth mononitrides: quasiatomic excitations and semiconducting bands

A Galler, LV Pourovskii - New Journal of Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The electronic structure of the rare-earth mononitrides LnN (where Ln= rare-earth), which
are promising materials for future spintronics applications, is difficult to resolve …

Nitrogen vacancies and carrier-concentration control in rare-earth nitrides

WF Holmes-Hewett, C Pot, RG Buckley, A Koo… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Most members of the ferromagnetic rare-earth nitride series display do** control over
electron transport, with nitrogen vacancies being the most common donor. This paper …

Probing the defect states of LuN1− δ: An experimental and computational study

S Devese, K Van Koughnet, RG Buckley, F Natali… - AIP Advances, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We report electrical transport and optical spectroscopy measurements on LuN thin films
variously doped with nitrogen vacancies along with the computed band structures of …

Tuneable magnetic behavior, electronic structure, and nitrogen vacancy formation in

O Porat, E Joshy, JD Miller, S Granville… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
The rare-earth nitrides are the only series of intrinsic ferromagnetic semiconductors where
the interplay of spin and unquenched orbital angular momentum provides access to a range …

Role of magnetic polarons in ferromagnetic GdN

F Natali, BJ Ruck, HJ Trodahl, DL Binh, S Vezian… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
We report an interplay between magnetism and charge transport in the ferromagnetic
semiconductor GdN, pointing to the formation of magnetic polarons centered on nitrogen …

Electronic structure of nitrogen-vacancy doped SmN: Intermediate valence and transport in a ferromagnetic semiconductor

WF Holmes-Hewett - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
SmN is an intrinsic ferromagnetic semiconductor with electrical transport properties that
have been of recent experimental interest. Its conductivity is largely dictated by the …

Superconductivity in the ferromagnetic semiconductor samarium nitride

EM Anton, S Granville, A Engel, SV Chong… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Conventional wisdom expects that making semiconductors ferromagnetic requires do**
with magnetic ions and that superconductivity cannot coexist with magnetism. However …

Anomalous Hall effect in SmN: Influence of orbital magnetism and -band conduction

WF Holmes-Hewett, FH Ullstad, BJ Ruck, F Natali… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We report measurements of the Hall effect in SmN thin films, spanning from ambient
temperature to well inside the ferromagnetic state. The carrier concentrations of 0.8–4× 10 …