Intermetallic Heusler alloys are amongst the most attractive half-metallic systems due to their
high Curie temperatures and their structural similarity to binary semiconductors. In this …

Spintronics is one of the most promising next generation information technology, which uses
the spins of electrons as information carriers and possesses potential advantages of …

Recent experimentally demonstrated intrinsic two-dimensional (2D) magnetism has sparked
intense interest for advanced spintronic applications. However, the rather low Curie …

An accurate density-functional method is used to study systematically half-metallic
ferromagnetism and stability of zincblende phases of 3 d–transition-metal chalcogenides …

We report systematic first-principles calculations for ordered zinc-blende compounds of the
transition metal elements V, Cr, and Mn with the sp elements N, P, As, Sb, S, Se, and Te …

This article reviews the recent advances of epitaxial ferromagnetic thin films and
heterostructures as well as devices towards semiconductor-based spin-electronics or often …

The electronic structure and the ferromagnetism of CrS and CrP in the zinc-blende (ZB)
phase are investigated by spin-polarized calculations with first-principles plane-wave …

It is predicted with the accurate full-potential density-functional method that the zinc blende
(ZB) CrSb phase is a robust half-metallic (HM) ferromagnet with a magnetic moment of 3.000 …

Using an accurate full-potential density-functional method we explore systematically all the 3
d transition metal pnictides and chalcogenides with wurtzite structure in order to find half …

The electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of the Co2VAl (111) graphene-like (GL)
monolayer as well as the (101) and (011) terminations have been calculated on the basis of …