Robust half-metallic ferromagnetism in zinc-blende CrSb

By Banggui Liu. 2002

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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 3.000mu(B) per formula. Its HM gap reaches 0.774 eV and persists to be nonzero even when it is compressed by 21%. Because the ZB CrSb phase is the best of the three ZB phases that have yet been realized experimentally (and also the best of all ZB transition-metal pnictides) and compatible with the III-V semiconductors, its excellent HM ferromagnetism should be useful in spin electronics and other applications.

Subfields: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry

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In Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

1. A. Lichtenstein
2. V. Irkhin
3. R. D. Groot
4. Jinlong Yang
5. M. Katsnelson
6. L. Chioncel
7. Xingxing Li

In Materials Chemistry

1. A. Lichtenstein
2. M. Katsnelson
3. Xingxing Li
4. V. Irkhin
5. R. D. Groot
6. Jinlong Yang
7. L. Chioncel
8. N. M. R. Peres

Citations in the corpus

• Half-metallic ferromagnets: From band structure to many-body effects (2007, background): “A study within density-functional theory (Liu, 2003) predicted for the ZB CrSb half-metallic ferromagnetism with a magnetic moment of 3.0 µB per formula.”
• First principles design of spintronics materials (2016, background): “Followed by CrAs, CrSb, and MnAs, thin films or nanodots were also successfully grown [39,40], which were predicted to be (quasi-) half metals [41,42].”