Title
Effects of Ga substitution on the structural and magnetic properties of half metallic Fe2MnSi Heusler compound
Date Issued
07 January 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Pedro S.S.
Caraballo Vivas R.J.
Andrade V.M.
Cruz C.
Paixão L.S.
Costa-Soares T.
Caldeira L.
Coelho A.A.
Carvalho A.M.G.
Rocco D.L.
Reis M.S.
Universidade Federal Fluminense
Publisher(s)
American Institute of Physics Inc.
Abstract
The so-called half-metallic magnets have been proposed as good candidates for spintronic applications due to the feature of exhibiting a hundred percent spin polarization at the Fermi level. Such materials follow the Slater-Pauling rule, which relates the magnetic moment with the valence electrons in the system. In this paper, we study the bulk polycrystalline half-metallic Fe2MnSi Heusler compound replacing Si by Ga to determine how the Ga addition changes the magnetic, the structural, and the half-metal properties of this compound. The material does not follow the Slater-Pauling rule, probably due to a minor structural disorder degree in the system, but a linear dependence on the magnetic transition temperature with the valence electron number points to the half-metallic behavior of this compound.
Volume
117
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física atómica, molecular y química
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84923581469
Source
Journal of Applied Physics
ISSN of the container
00218979
Sponsor(s)
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
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