scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

Simple rules for the understanding of Heusler compounds

Tanja Graf, +2 more
- 01 May 2011 - 
- Vol. 39, Iss: 1, pp 1-50
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
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
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.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Designing and discovering a new family of semiconducting quaternary Heusler compounds based on the 18-electron rule

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.
PatentDOI

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.
Journal ArticleDOI

Half-Heusler topological insulators

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.
Journal ArticleDOI

Recent progress in Heusler-type magnetic shape memory alloys

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.
Journal ArticleDOI

Compositional tuning of ZrNiSn half-Heusler alloys: Thermoelectric characteristics and performance analysis

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.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

TL;DR: A simple derivation of a simple GGA is presented, in which all parameters (other than those in LSD) are fundamental constants, and only general features of the detailed construction underlying the Perdew-Wang 1991 (PW91) GGA are invoked.
Journal ArticleDOI

Self-Consistent Equations Including Exchange and Correlation Effects

TL;DR: In this paper, the Hartree and Hartree-Fock equations are applied to a uniform electron gas, where the exchange and correlation portions of the chemical potential of the gas are used as additional effective potentials.
Journal ArticleDOI

Atoms, molecules, solids, and surfaces: Applications of the generalized gradient approximation for exchange and correlation.

TL;DR: A way is found to visualize and understand the nonlocality of exchange and correlation, its origins, and its physical effects as well as significant interconfigurational and interterm errors remain.
Journal ArticleDOI

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple [Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3865 (1996)]

TL;DR: For the molecules Be2, F2, and P2 of Table I, the unrestricted Hartree-Fock solution breaks the singlet spin symmetry, even though the density functional solutions do not.
Journal ArticleDOI

Giant magnetoresistance of (001)Fe/(001)Cr magnetic superlattices.

TL;DR: This work ascribes this giant magnetoresistance of (001)Fe/(001)Cr superlattices prepared by molecularbeam epitaxy to spin-dependent transmission of the conduction electrons between Fe layers through Cr layers.
Related Papers (5)