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Growth and Magnetotransport Properties of Thin Co2MnGe Layered Structures
Co2MnGe and other related Heusler alloys are investigated in the context of magnetotransport properties in multilayer (ML) structures. The most...
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Half-Metallicity and Slater-Pauling Behavior in the Ferromagnetic Heusler Alloys
A significant number of the intermetallic Heusler alloys have been predicted to be half-metals. In this contribution we present a study of the basic...
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Materials Design and Molecular-Beam Epitaxy of Half-Metallic Zinc-Blende CrAs and the Heterostructures
Zinc-blende half-metallic ferromagnets are promising materials in order to open up a new world of semiconductor spintronics. We design a new class of...
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Magnetism and Structure of Magnetic Multilayers Based on the Fully Spin Polarized Heusler Alloys Co2MnGe and Co2MnSn
Our Introduction starts with a short general review of the magnetic and structural properties of the Heusler compounds which are under discussion in...
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Half-Metallic Ferromagnetism and Stability of Transition Metal Pnictides and Chalcogenides
It is highly desirable to explore robust half-metallic ferromagnetic materials compatible with important semiconductors for spintronic applications....
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Epitaxial Growth of NiMnSb on GaAs by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
The similarity in crystal structures allows for the epitaxial growth of the candidate half-metal NiMnSb on GaAs. We discuss the growth by molecular...
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Surface Segregation and Compositional Instability at the Surface of Half-Metal Ferromagnets and Related Compounds
Interface engineering in order to exploit the possibilities of the interface electronic structure may be a route to a good spin injector....
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Role of Structural Defects on the Half-Metallic Character of Heusler Alloys and Their Junctions with Ge and GaAs
Heusler–alloys, such as Co2MnGe and Co2MnSi, predicted from firstprinciples to be half–metallic, have recently attracted great attention for...
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The Properties of Co2Cr1-xFexAl Heusler Compounds
The classical concept of band structure tuning as used for semiconductors by partly replacing one atom by a chemical neighbor without altering the...
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Heusler Alloyed Electrodes Integrated in Magnetic Tunnel-Junctions
As a consequence of the growing theoretically predictions of 100% spin polarized half– and full–Heusler compounds over the past 6 years, Heusler...
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Structural Order
OrderOrder and disorderDisorder are rather complex concepts with various and sometimes conflicting meanings so that it is somewhat difficult to give...
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Quasicrystals
WeAperiodic crystal commonly refer to two atomic arrangements when describing the structure of an ideal solid, namely a homogeneous, chemically pure...
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The Structure of Disordered Systems
Structural research has traditionally had a leading role in solid-state physics since the determination of the arrangements of atoms in space.
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Value Recovery Pathways for Rare Earth Elements and Nd-Fe-B Magnets from End-of-Life Products
With the advent of a clean energy economy, our society is moving away from a fuel-intensive energy system to a material-intensive system that relies...
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Energy-Related Rare Earth Element Sources
Energy-related materials such as coal, coal-bearing wastes, and coal combustion products are traditionally thought of as sources or by-products of...
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Rare Earth Extraction from Ion-Adsorption Clays in U.S. Coal By-Products
Ion-adsorption clays (IACs) mined in South China are probably the most important rare earth resource in the world, as they account for >80% of the...
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Rare Earth Markets and Their Industrial Applications
Continuous discoveries of the unique chemical and physical properties of rare earth elements (REEs) throughout history have had a major impact on...
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Solvent Extraction
The chemical and physical properties of the final application using rare earth elements (REEs) are specific to the different REEs and in most cases,...
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Conventional Rare Earth Element Mineral Deposits—The Global Landscape
Four conventional mineral deposit types—carbonatite, alkaline igneous, heavy mineral sand, and regolith-hosted ion-adsorption clay deposits—currently...
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Continuous Ion Chromatography
In the late 1940s, lanthanide separations were performed using ion exchange (IX) as part of the Manhattan project (Boyd et al. J Am Chem Soc 69(11):...