Rare-earth mononitrides

F Natali, BJ Ruck, NOV Plank, HJ Trodahl… - Progress in Materials …, 2013 - Elsevier
When the rare earth mononitrides (RENs) first burst onto the scientific scene in the middle of
last century, there were feverish dreams that their strong magnetic moment would afford a …

Electronic structure of rare-earth nitrides using the approach: Importance of allowing orbitals to break the cubic crystal symmetry

P Larson, WRL Lambrecht, A Chantis… - Physical Review B …, 2007 - APS
Electronic structure calculations were performed for the rare-earth (RE) nitrides in the
rocksalt structure using density functional theory calculations within the LSDA+ U approach …

Electronic, magnetic and transport properties of rare-earth monopnictides

CG Duan, RF Sabirianov, WN Mei… - Journal of Physics …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
The electronic structures and magnetic properties of many rare-earth monopnictides are
reviewed in this article. Possible candidate materials for spintronics devices from the rare …

Hybrid functionals and GW approximation in the FLAPW method

C Friedrich, M Betzinger, M Schlipf… - Journal of Physics …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present recent advances in numerical implementations of hybrid functionals and the GW
approximation within the full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave (FLAPW) method …

Critical magnetic behavior of the rare earth-based alloy GdN: Monte Carlo simulations and density functional theory method

S Idrissi, S Ziti, H Labrim, L Bahmad - Journal of Materials Engineering …, 2020 - Springer
In this study, we use Monte Carlo simulations (MCS) and DFT method in order to deduce the
critical magnetic behavior of the rare earth-based alloy GdN. The Monte Carlo method is …

Ferromagnetism in GaN: Gd: a density functional theory study

L Liu, PY Yu, Z Ma, SS Mao - Physical Review Letters, 2008 - APS
First-principle calculations of the electronic structure and magnetic interaction of GaN: Gd
have been performed within the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) of the density …

Semiconducting ground state of thin films

S Granville, BJ Ruck, F Budde, A Koo, DJ Pringle… - Physical Review B …, 2006 - APS
We report the growth of GdN thin films and a study of their structure and magnetic and
conducting properties. It is demonstrated that they are semiconducting at ambient …

Coexistence and tuning of spin-singlet and triplet transport in spin-filter Josephson junctions

HG Ahmad, M Minutillo, R Capecelatro, A Pal… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The increased capabilities of coupling more and more materials through functional
interfaces are paving the way to a series of exciting experiments and extremely advanced …

Pressure-stabilized GdN 6 with an armchair–antiarmchair structure as a high energy density material

L Liu, D Wang, S Zhang, H Zhang - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The quest for high-energy-density materials is an active research field in materials science
and industrial applications. Using the swarm-intelligence structure search method and first …

Influence of epitaxial strain on the ferromagnetic semiconductor : First-principles calculations

NJC Ingle, IS Elfimov - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2008 - APS
From first-principles calculations we investigate the electronic structure and the magnetic
properties of EuO under hydrostatic stress and the appropriate biaxial stress for epitaxial …