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Simple rules for the understanding of Heusler compounds
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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.About:
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Designing and discovering a new family of semiconducting quaternary Heusler compounds based on the 18-electron rule
Jiangang He,S. Shahab Naghavi,S. Shahab Naghavi,Vinay Hegde,Maximilian Amsler,Chris Wolverton +5 more
TL;DR: LiMgSnPd (F43m, No. 216) is a quaternary Heusler semiconductor with band gaps in the range of 0.3 to 2.5 eV as discussed by the authors.
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Termination layer-compensated tunneling magnetoresistance in ferrimagnetic Heusler compounds with high perpendicular magnetic anisotropy
TL;DR: A layered stack includes a first layer having a first spin polarization and a first magnetic moment, as well as a second layer (in contact with the first layer) having a second spin polarization a second magnetic moment.
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Half-Heusler topological insulators
Binghai Yan,Anne de Visser +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an effective model Hamiltonian from which the topological state of half-Heusler compounds can be derived, notably from a non-trivial inverted band structure.
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Recent progress in Heusler-type magnetic shape memory alloys
Guanghua Yu,Yunli Xu,Yunli Xu,Zhu-Hong Liu,Hongmei Qiu,Ze-Ya Zhu,Xiang-Ping Huang,Liqing Pan +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the magnetic field-induced shape memory effect in Ni-Mn-Ga, NiMnZ (Z = In, Sn, Sb, Al), and NiCoMnz (Z −1, Sn −2, Al) Heusler-type MSMAs is discussed.
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Compositional tuning of ZrNiSn half-Heusler alloys: Thermoelectric characteristics and performance analysis
Nagendra S. Chauhan,Nagendra S. Chauhan,Sivaiah Bathula,Sivaiah Bathula,Avinash Vishwakarma,Avinash Vishwakarma,Ruchi Bhardwaj,Ruchi Bhardwaj,Kishor Kumar Johari,Kishor Kumar Johari,Bhasker Gahtori,Bhasker Gahtori,M. Saravanan,Ajay Dhar,Ajay Dhar +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the prospects of nanostructuring by synthesizing nano-crystalline iso-electronically substituted n-type Zr1-xHfxNiSn HH alloys to achieve a state-of-the-art TE figure-ofmerit ZT ∼20% higher than its bulk counterparts.
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