Half-metallic Alloys: Fundamentals and Applications

✍ Scribed by Iosif Galanakis, Peter H. Dederichs (auth.), I. Galanakis, Professor Dr. P.H. Dederichs (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 319
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics 676
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 at the Fermi level show complete spin polarization making them prime targets for research into suitable divices for spin electronics. This book is both an introduction and state-of-art survey of the latest advances in the understanding and applications of Heusler alloys and related compounds.

✦ Table of Contents

Half-Metallicity and Slater-Pauling Behavior in the Ferromagnetic Heusler Alloys....Pages 1-39
Role of Structural Defects on the Half-Metallic Character of Heusler Alloys and Their Junctions with Ge and GaAs....Pages 41-66
Magnetism and Structure of Magnetic Multilayers Based on the Fully Spin Polarized Heusler Alloys Co 2 MnGe and Co 2 MnSn....Pages 67-112
The Properties of Co 2 Cr 1 - x Fe x Al Heusler Compounds....Pages 113-152
Epitaxial Growth of NiMnSb on GaAs by Molecular Beam Epitaxy....Pages 153-185
Growth and Magnetotransport Properties of Thin Co 2 MnGe Layered Structures....Pages 187-220
Surface Segregation and Compositional Instability at the Surface of Half-Metal Ferromagnets and Related Compounds....Pages 221-239
Heusler Alloyed Electrodes Integrated in Magnetic Tunnel-Junctions....Pages 241-265
Half-Metallic Ferromagnetism and Stability of Transition Metal Pnictides and Chalcogenides....Pages 267-291
Materials Design and Molecular-Beam Epitaxy of Half-Metallic Zinc-Blende CrAs and the Heterostructures....Pages 293-311

✦ Subjects

Metallic Materials; Solid State Physics and Spectroscopy; Magnetism, Magnetic Materials