Equiatomic quaternary Heusler alloys: A material perspective for spintronic applications

L Bainsla, KG Suresh - Applied Physics Reviews, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Half-metallic ferromagnetic (HMF) materials show high spin polarization and are therefore
interesting to researchers due to their possible applications in spintronic devices. In these …

Spin-gapless semiconductors for future spintronics and electronics

X Wang, Z Cheng, G Zhang, H Yuan, H Chen, XL Wang - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, spin-gapless semiconductors (SGSs) with parabolic and linear band
dispersions have aroused great interest worldwide in the field of materials science due to …

Monolayer MXenes: promising half-metals and spin gapless semiconductors

G Gao, G Ding, J Li, K Yao, M Wu, M Qian - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Half-metals and spin gapless semiconductors are promising candidates for spintronic
applications due to the complete (100%) spin polarization of electrons around the Fermi …

First-principles design of spintronics materials

X Li, J Yang - National Science Review, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Spintronics is one of the most promising next generation information technology, which uses
the spins of electrons as information carriers and possesses potential advantages of …

Slater-Pauling behavior in LiMgPdSn-type multifunctional quaternary Heusler materials: Half-metallicity, spin-gapless and magnetic semiconductors

K Özdoğan, E Şaşıoğlu, I Galanakis - Journal of Applied Physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We employ ab-initio electronic structure calculations to study 60 LiMgPdSn-type (also known
as LiMgPdSb-type) quaternary Heusler compounds. All compounds obey the Slater-Pauling …

Generalized Slater-Pauling rule for the inverse Heusler compounds

S Skaftouros, K Özdoğan, E Şaşıoğlu… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
We present extensive first-principles calculations on the inverse full-Heusler compounds
having the chemical formula X 2 YZ, where X= Sc, Ti, V, Cr, or Mn; Z= Al, Si, or As; and the Y …

Spin gapless semiconducting behavior in equiatomic quaternary CoFeMnSi Heusler alloy

L Bainsla, AI Mallick, MM Raja, AK Nigam… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
In this paper, we report the signature of spin gapless semiconductor (SGS) in CoFeMnSi that
belongs to the Heusler family. SGS is a new class of magnetic semiconductors which have a …

High-throughput screening for spin-gapless semiconductors in quaternary Heusler compounds

Q Gao, I Opahle, H Zhang - Physical Review Materials, 2019 - APS
Based on high-throughput density functional theory calculations, we performed a systematic
screening for spin-gapless semiconductors (SGSs) in quaternary Heusler alloys XX′ YZ (X …

A new spin gapless semiconductors family: Quaternary Heusler compounds

GZ Xu, EK Liu, Y Du, GJ Li, GD Liu, WH Wang… - Europhysics …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
By using first-principles calculations, we investigate the band structures of a series of
quaternary LiMgPdSn-type Heusler compounds. Our calculation results show that five …

Recent advances in the Heusler based spin-gapless semiconductors

X Wang, Z Cheng, J Wang, XL Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, spin-gapless semiconductors (SGSs) have received considerable interest in
the fields of condensed matter physics and materials sciences due to their potential …