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Simple rules for the understanding of Heusler compounds

Tanja Graf, +2 more
- 01 May 2011 - 
- Vol. 39, Iss: 1, pp 1-50
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Heusler compounds as discussed by the authors are a remarkable class of intermetallic materials with 1:1:1 or 2:1-1 composition comprising more than 1500 members, and their properties can easily be predicted by the valence electron count.
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This article is published in Progress in Solid State Chemistry.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 1675 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Heusler compound.

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On the characterisation of antisite defects and ordering in off-stoichiometric Fe 2 VAl-based Heusler compounds by X-ray anomalous diffraction

TL;DR: In this article, anomalous scattering and neutron diffraction were successfully combined with differential scanning calorimetry to highlight the order-disorder transitions in Fe2VAl-based compounds.
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Structural, half-metallic magnetism and elastic properties of the KMnQ2 (Q=O, S, Se, Te) chalcogenides from first-principles calculations

TL;DR: In this paper, the structural, electronic, magnetic and elastic properties of the ternary chalcogenides KMnQ2 (Q=O, S, Se, Te) were investigated by means of spin-polarized density functional theory calculations.
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Conduction band engineering of half-Heusler thermoelectrics using orbital chemistry

TL;DR: In this article , two conduction bands with very different effective masses are converged at the X point in the half-Heusler Brillouin zone for thermoelectric enhancement.
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Prediction of metallic and half-metallic structure and elastic properties of Fe 2 Ti 1-x Mn x Al Heusler alloys

TL;DR: In this article, structural and elastic properties of Fe 2 Ti 1 − x Mn x Al Heusler alloys were carried out using density functional theory within the generalized gradient approximations.
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Systematic understanding of half-metallicity of ternary compounds in Heusler and Inverse Heusler structures with 3$d$ and 4$d$ elements.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extensively study ternary Heusler compounds having the chemical formula X$_2$X$^prime$Z, where X = Mn, Fe or Co; Z = Al or Si; and X$^\prime$ changes along the row of 4$d$ transition metals.
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