Heusler alloys: Past, properties, new alloys, and prospects

S Tavares, K Yang, MA Meyers - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Heusler alloys, discovered serendipitously at the beginning of the twentieth century, have
emerged in the twenty-first century as exciting materials for numerous remarkable functional …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

Thermoelectric properties, phonon, and mechanical stability of new half-metallic quaternary Heusler alloys: FeRhCrZ (Z= Si and Ge)

SA Khandy, JD Chai - Journal of Applied Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Computer simulations within the framework of density functional theory are performed to
study the electronic, dynamic, elastic, magnetic, and thermoelectric properties of a newly …

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 …

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 …

Heusler 4.0: tunable materials

L Wollmann, AK Nayak, SSP Parkin… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Heusler compounds are a large family of binary, ternary, and quaternary compounds that
exhibit a wide range of properties of both fundamental and potential technological interest …

New quaternary half-metallic ferromagnets with large Curie temperatures

A Kundu, S Ghosh, R Banerjee, S Ghosh, B Sanyal - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
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 …