At an interface between two materials physical properties and functionalities may be
achieved, which would not exist in either material alone. Epitaxial inorganic interfaces are at …

Half-metals are particular ferromagnetic materials which can be considered as hybrids
between metals and semiconductors. A particular feature of these materials is that electrons …

Spintronics/magnetoelectronics brought at the center of scientific research the Heusler and
full-Heusler compounds, since several among them have been shown to be half-metals. In …

We study the electronic and magnetic properties of the interfaces between the half-metallic
Heusler alloy NiMnSb and the binary semiconductors InP and GaAs using two different state …

The magnetic and structural properties of MnAs are studied with ab initio methods and by
map** total energies onto a Heisenberg model. The stability of the different phases is …

Although the interest in half-metallic Heusler alloys, likely to be usable in spintronic
applications, has grown considerably, their interfaces with semiconductors show very low …

A significant number of the intermetallic Heusler alloys have been predicted to be half-
metals. In this contribution we present a study of the basic electronic and magnetic …

A high degree of spin polarization in electron transport is one of the most sought-after
properties of a material which can be used in spintronics—an emerging technology utilizing …

Based on first-principles calculations, the structural, magnetic, dynamic properties, and the α-
hexagonal→ β-orthorhombic→ γ-hexagonal phase transitions of ferromagnetic …

We have studied [Co 2 Mn Ge∕ V] N multilayers with a thickness of the V layers t V between
1.5 and 10 nm and a fixed thickness of the Heusler layer t Co 2 Mn Ge= 3 nm by x-ray …