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2023-04-23
Hierarchical bubble size distributions in coarsening wet liquid foams
Coarsening of two-phase systems is crucial for the stability of dense particle packings such as alloys, foams, emulsions or supersaturated solutions. Mean field theories predict an asymptotic scaling state with a broad particle size distribution. Aqueous foams are good model systems for investigations of coarsening-ind...
2304.11543v2
2023-05-09
Turing Pattern and Chemical Medium-Range Order of Metallic glasses
The formation of bulk metallic glass requires the constituent elements to have a negative heat of mixing but has no restrictions on its magnitude. An understanding of this issue is lacking due to the absence of a valid method for describing chemical ordering of metallic glasses. For example, the radial distribution fun...
2305.05357v1
2023-06-09
A Large-Scale Pad-Sensor Based Prototype of the Silicon Tungsten Electromagnetic Calorimeter for the Forward Direction in ALICE at LHC
We constructed a large-scale electromagnetic calorimeter prototype as a part of the Forward Calorimeter upgrade project (FoCal) for the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The prototype, also known as ``Mini FoCal'', consists of 20 layers of silicon pad sensors and tungsten alloy plates with printed ci...
2306.06153v2
2023-06-26
Elucidating Interfacial Dynamics of Ti-Al Systems Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Markov State Modeling
Due to their remarkable mechanical and chemical properties, Ti-Al based materials are attracting considerable interest in numerous fields of engineering, such as automotive, aerospace, and defense. With their low density, high strength, and resistance to corrosion and oxidation, these intermetallic alloys and compound ...
2306.14568v2
2023-06-29
Registration between DCT and EBSD datasets for multiphase microstructures
The ability to characterise the three-dimensional microstructure of multiphase materials is essential for understanding the interaction between phases and associated materials properties. Here, laboratory-based diffraction-contrast tomography (DCT), a recently-established materials characterization technique that can d...
2306.17011v1
2023-06-30
Screening Mixed-Metal Sn$_2$M(III)Ch$_2$X$_3$ Chalcohalides for Photovoltaic Applications
Quaternary mixed-metal chalcohalides (Sn$_2$BCh$_2$X$_3$) are emerging as promising lead-free perovskite-inspired photovoltaic absorbers. Motivated by recent developments of a first Sn$_2$BCh$_2$X$_3$-based device, we used density functional theory to identify lead-free Sn$_2$BCh$_2$X$_3$ materials that are structurall...
2306.17745v2
2023-07-25
Topological Insulator VxBi1.08-xSn0.02Sb0.9Te2S as a Promising n-type Thermoelectric Material
As one of the most important n-type thermoelectric (TE) materials, Bi2Te3 has been studied for decades, with efforts to enhance the thermoelectric performance based on element doping, band engineering, etc. In this study, we report a novel bulk-insulating topological material system as a replacement for n-type Bi2Te3 m...
2307.13395v1
2023-07-29
Flow states and heat transport in liquid metal convection
We present an experimental study of Rayleigh-B\'enard convection using liquid metal alloy gallium-indium-tin as the working fluid with a Prandtl number of $Pr=0.029$. The flow state and the heat transport were measured in a Rayleigh number range of $1.2\times10^{4} \le Ra \le 1.3\times10^{7}$. The temperature fluctuati...
2307.15885v1
2023-09-21
Life Cycle Analysis of the GRAND Experiment
The goal of our study is to assess the environmental impact of the installation and use of the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) prototype detection units, based on the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology, and to propose recommendations that contribute to reduce the environmental impacts of the proje...
2309.12282v1
2023-10-03
Dual-resonance nanostructures for colour down-conversion of colloidal quantum emitters
Linear colour conversion is a process where an emitter absorbs a photon and then emits another photon with either higher or lower energy, corresponding to up- or down conversion, respectively. In this regard, the presence of a volumetric cavity plays a crucial role in enhancing absorption and photoluminescence (PL), as...
2310.02091v1
2023-09-12
Innovative NiAl Electrodes for Long-Term, Intermediate High-Temperature SAW Sensing Applications Using LiNbO$_3$ Substrates
Wireless SAW reflective delay line (R-DL) technology is very powerful to carry out remote measurements of various parameters under harsh environments, while enabling the identification of a given sensor among several of them. However, R-DL technology is currently limited to 350$^\circ$C for long-term applications, like...
2310.11456v1
2023-10-23
Heterogeneity in tribologically transformed structure (TTS) of Ti-6Al-4V under fretting
Fretting wear is a surface degradation process caused by oscillatory motion and contact slipping. During gross slip, high local stresses and plastic deformation in the surface and subsurface can lead to the creation of a nanosized grained structure called Tribologically Transformed Structure (TTS). The current paper st...
2310.14668v1
2023-11-07
Analysis and Applications of Deep Learning with Finite Samples in Full Life-Cycle Intelligence of Nuclear Power Generation
The advent of Industry 4.0 has precipitated the incorporation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods within industrial contexts, aiming to realize intelligent manufacturing, operation as well as maintenance, also known as industrial intelligence. However, intricate industrial milieus, particularly those relating to en...
2311.04247v1
2023-11-13
Engineering 2D material exciton lineshape with graphene/h-BN encapsulation
Control over the optical properties of atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) layers, including those of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), is needed for future optoelectronic applications. Remarkable advances have been achieved through alloying, chemical and electrical doping, and applied strain. However, the inte...
2311.07085v1
2023-11-17
Structural and magnetic properties of molecular beam epitaxy (MnSb2Te4)x(Sb2Te3)1-x topological materials with exceedingly high Curie temperature
Tuning magnetic properties of magnetic topological materials is of interest to realize elusive physical phenomena such as quantum anomalous hall effect (QAHE) at higher temperatures and design topological spintronic devices. However, current topological materials exhibit Curie temperature (TC) values far below room tem...
2311.10891v1
2023-12-12
Understanding disorder in Silicon quantum computing platforms: Scattering mechanisms in Si/SiGe quantum wells
Motivated by recent experiments on Si/SiGe quantum wells with a co-design of high electron mobility and large valley splitting [B. Paquelet Wuetz, et al., Nature Communications 14, 1385 (2023); D. D. Esposti, et al., arXiv:2309.02832], suitable for a Si-based spin qubit quantum computing platform, we examine the role o...
2312.07717v1
2023-12-30
Rheological characterization of a thixotropic semisolid slurry by means of numerical simulations of squeeze flow experiments
We propose a methodology for the rheological characterization of a semisolid metal slurry using experimental squeeze flow data. The slurry is modeled as a structural thixotropic viscoplastic material, obeying the regularized Herschel-Bulkley constitutive equation. All rheological parameters are assumed to vary with the...
2401.00178v1
2024-02-05
Deposition and photoluminescence of zinc gallium oxide thin films with varied stoichiometry made by reactive magnetron co-sputtering
This paper reports on the deposition and photoluminescence of amorphous and crystalline thin films of zinc gallium oxide with Ga:Zn atomic ratio varied between 0.3 and 5.7. The films are prepared by reactive direct current magnetron co-sputtering from liquid/solid gallium/zinc targets onto fused quartz substrates; the ...
2402.03000v1
2024-02-05
Transfer-printed multiple Ge$_{0.89}$Sn$_{0.11}$ membrane mid-infrared photodetectors
Due to their narrow band gap and compatibility with silicon processing, germanium-tin (Ge$_{1-x}$Sn$_x$) alloys are a versatile platform for scalable integrated mid-infrared photonics. These semiconductors are typically grown on silicon wafers using Ge as an interlayer. However, the large lattice mismatch in this heter...
2402.03462v1
2024-02-06
Interpretable Multi-Source Data Fusion Through Latent Variable Gaussian Process
With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), various domains of science and engineering communites has leveraged data-driven surrogates to model complex systems from numerous sources of information (data). The proliferation has led to significant reduction in cost and time involved in deve...
2402.04146v2
2024-02-11
Resonant soft X-ray scattering reveals hierarchical structure in a multi-component vapor-deposited glass
Multi-phase vapor-deposited glasses are an important class of materials for organic electronics, particularly organic photovoltaics and thermoelectrics. These blends are frequently regarded as molecular alloys and there have been few studies of their structure at nanometer scales. Here we show that a co-deposited syste...
2402.07280v1
2024-03-02
Europa's structural conditions for the existence of subsurface ocean and the absence of metallic core-driven magnetic field
Europa's interior is expected to be divided into the metallic core, rocky mantle and hydrosphere based on the moment of inertia factor estimated from gravity field measurements. Specifically, the thickness of the outermost water layer is 120-170 km, and the radius of the metallic core is 0.12-0.43 times the surface rad...
2403.01336v1
2024-03-18
Tuning of the ultrafast demagnetization by ultrashort spin polarized currents in multi-sublattice ferrimagnets
Femtosecond laser pulses can be used to induce ultrafast changes of the magnetization in magnetic materials. Several microscopic mechanisms have been proposed to explain the observations, including the transport of ultrashort spin-polarized hot-electrons (SPHE). Such ultrafast spin currents find growing interest becaus...
2403.11739v2
2024-04-08
The geometry of high-dimensional phase diagrams: II. The duality between closed and open chemical systems
Modern materials are often synthesized or operated in complex chemical environments, where there can be numerous elemental species, competing phases, and reaction pathways. When analyzing reactions using the Gibbs free energy, which has a natural variable of composition, it is often cumbersome to solve for the equilibr...
2404.05197v2
2013-11-28
Predicting the steady state thickness of passive films with the Point Defect Model in fretting corrosion experiments
Some implants have approximately a lifetime of 15 years. The femoral stem, for example, should be made of 316L/316LN stainless steel. Fretting corrosion, friction under small displacements, should occur during human gait, due to repeated loadings and un-loadings, between stainless steel and bone for instance. Some expe...
1311.7224v1
2015-12-04
Detection of thermal neutrons with the PRISMA-YBJ array in Extensive Air Showers selected by the ARGO-YBJ experiment
We report on a measurement of thermal neutrons, generated by the hadronic component of extensive air showers (EAS), by means of a small array of EN-detectors developed for the PRISMA project (PRImary Spectrum Measurement Array), novel devices based on a compound alloy of ZnS(Ag) and $^{6}$LiF. This array has been opera...
1512.01326v2
2020-05-07
Materials for hydrogen-based energy storage: Past, recent progress and future outlook
Magnesium hydride owns the largest share of publications on solid materials for hydrogen storage. The Magnesium group of international experts contributing to IEA Task 32 Hydrogen Based Energy Storage recently published two review papers presenting the activities of the group focused on magnesium hydride based material...
2005.03410v1
2021-08-26
The microstructural dependence of ionic transport in bi-continuous nanoporous metal
Ionic transports in nanopores hold the key to unlocking the full potential of bi-continuous nanoporous (NP) metals as advanced electrodes in electrochemical devices. The precise control of the uniform NP metal structures also provides us a unique opportunity to understand how complex structures determine transports at ...
2108.11529v1
2022-09-30
MICROSCOPE mission: final results of the test of the Equivalence Principle
The MICROSCOPE mission was designed to test the Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP), stating the equality between the inertial and the gravitational masses, with a precision of $10^{-15}$ in terms of the E\"otv\"os ratio $\eta$. Its experimental test consisted of comparing the accelerations undergone by two collocated tes...
2209.15487v1
2022-09-30
Result of the MICROSCOPE Weak Equivalence Principle test
The space mission MICROSCOPE dedicated to the test of the Equivalence Principle (EP) operated from April 25, 2016 until the deactivation of the satellite on October 16, 2018. In this analysis we compare the free-fall accelerations ($a_{\rm A}$ and $a_{\rm B}$) of two test masses in terms of the E\"otv\"os parameter $\e...
2209.15488v1
2022-11-03
Little Tricky Logic: Misconceptions in the Understanding of LTL
Context: Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) has been used widely in verification. Its importance and popularity have only grown with the revival of temporal logic synthesis, and with new uses of LTL in robotics and planning activities. All these uses demand that the user have a clear understanding of what an LTL specification...
2211.01677v1
2023-08-29
Discovery of Spherules of Likely Extrasolar Composition in the Pacific Ocean Site of the CNEOS 2014-01-08 (IM1) Bolide
We have conducted an extensive towed-magnetic-sled survey during the period 14-28 June, 2023, over the seafloor centered around the calculated path of the bolide CNEOS 2014-01-08 (IM1) about 85 km north of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. We found about 700 spherules of diameter 0.05-1.3 millimeters in our samples, of w...
2308.15623v1
2015-12-21
The secret harmony of the random disorder, revealed in the paper sheet
This study is about the properties of the sets of objects associated in a structure resulting from multiple-processes involving chance as are materials whose texture is unordered and random. Being a paper scientist the author refers to the sheet of paper which is a stochastic fibrous set whose porous texture can be con...
1512.08505v1
2023-02-20
GRBAlpha: the smallest astrophysical space observatory -- Part 1: Detector design, system description and satellite operations
Aims. Since launched on 2021 March 22, the 1U-sized CubeSat GRBAlpha operates and collects scientific data on high-energy transients, making it the smallest astrophysical space observatory to date. GRBAlpha is an in-obit demonstration of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) detector concept suitably small to fit into a standard 1U ...
2302.10048v2
2016-12-18
Heusler 4.0: Tunable Materials
Heusler compounds are a large family of binary, ternary and quaternary compounds that exhibit a wide range of properties of both fundamental and potential technological interest. The extensive tunability of the Heusler compounds through chemical substitutions and structural motifs makes the family especially interestin...
1612.05947v2
2014-09-23
Guidelines for understanding cubic manganese-rich Heusler compounds
Manganese-rich Heusler compounds are attracting much interest in the context of spin transfer torque and rare-earth free hard magnets. Here we give a comprehensive overview of the magnetic properties of non-centrosymmetric cubic Mn$_2$-based Heusler materials, which are characterized by an antiparallel coupling of magn...
1409.6532v1
2018-12-18
Atomistic study of an ideal metal/thermoelectric contact: the full-Heusler/half-Heusler interface
Half-Heusler alloys such as the (Zr,Hf)NiSn intermetallic compounds are important thermoelectric materials for converting waste heat into electricity. Reduced electrical resistivity at the hot interface between the half-Heusler material and a metal contact is critical for device performance, however this has yet to be ...
1812.07189v1
2013-01-12
Effect of Co-Fe substitutions on the room-temperature spin polarization in Co_3-xFe_xSi Heusler-compound films
Using low-temperature molecular beam epitaxy, we study substitutions of Fe atoms for Co ones in Co_3-xFe_xSi Heusler-compound films grown on Si and Ge. Even for the low-temperature grown Heusler-compound films, the Co-Fe atomic substitution at A and C sites can be confirmed by the conversion electron M"ossbauer spectro...
1301.2645v1
2002-11-14
Preparation and structural properties of thin films and multilayers of the Heusler compounds Cu2MnAl, Co2MnSn, Co2MnSi and Co2MnGe
We report on the preparation of thin films and multilayers of the intermetallic Heusler compound CuMnAl, Co2MnSn, Co2MnSi and Co2MnGe by rf-sputtering on MgO and Al2O3 substrates. Cu2MnAl can be grown epitaxially with (100)-orientation on MgO (100) and in (110)-orientation on Al2O3 a-plane. The Co based Heusler alloys ...
0211271v1
2019-05-09
Half-Heusler Compounds: Promising Materials For Mid-To-High Temperature Thermoelectric Conversion
Half-Heusler compounds (space group Fm3m) has garnered increasing attention in recent years in the thermoelectric community. Three decades ago, refractory RNiSn half-Heusler compounds (R represents refractory metals such as Hf, Zr, Ti) were found to be narrow-gap semiconductors with large Seebeck coefficients in 100s o...
1905.03845v1
2007-05-25
Ferrimagnetism and antiferromagnetism in half-metallic Heusler alloys
Half-metallic Heusler alloys are among the most promising materials for future applications in spintronic devices. Although most Heusler alloys are ferromagnets, ferrimagnetic or antiferromagnetic (also called fully-compensated ferrimagnetic) alloys would be more desirable for applications due to the lower external fie...
0705.3731v1
2018-12-04
Recent Advances in Thermoelectric Performance of Half-Heusler Compounds
Half-Heusler phases (space group F43m, C1b) have recently captured much attention as promising thermoelectric materials for heat-to-electric power conversion in the mid-to-high temperature range. The most studied ones are the RNiSn-type half-Heusler compounds, where R represents refractory metals Hf, Zr, and Ti. These ...
1812.01709v1
2005-10-11
Introduction to half-metallic Heusler alloys: Electronic Structure and Magnetic Properties
Intermetallic Heusler alloys are amongst the most attractive half-metallic systems due to the high Curie temperatures and the structural similarity to the binary semiconductors. In this review we present an overview of the basic electronic and magnetic properties of both Heusler families: the so-called half-Heusler all...
0510276v1
2005-11-18
Investigation of Co$_2$FeSi: The Heusler compound with Highest Curie Temperature and Magnetic Moment
This work reports on structural and magnetic investigations of the Heusler compound Co$_2$FeSi. X-Ray diffraction and M\"o\ss bauer spectrometry indicate an ordered $L2_1$ structure. Magnetic measurements by means of X-ray magnetic circular dichroism and magnetometry revealed that this compound is, currently, the mater...
0511462v1
2019-01-28
An Enormous Class of Double Half-Heusler Compounds with Low Thermal Conductivity
Since their discovery around a century ago, the structure and chemistry of the multi-functional half-Heusler semiconductors have been studied extensively as three component systems. The elemental groups constituting these ternary compounds with the nominal formula XYZ are well established. From the very same set of wel...
1901.09800v1
2023-06-29
High-throughput design of all-d-metal Heusler alloys for magnetocaloric applications
Due to their versatile composition and customizable properties, A$_2$BC Heusler alloys have found applications in magnetic refrigeration, magnetic shape memory effects, permanent magnets, and spintronic devices. The discovery of all-$d$-metal Heusler alloys with improved mechanical properties compared to those containi...
2306.17092v1
2018-02-13
Designing and discovering a new family of semiconducting quaternary Heusler compounds based on the 18-electron rule
Intermetallic compounds with sizable band gaps are attractive for their unusual properties but rare. Here, we present a new family of stable semiconducting quaternary Heusler compounds, designed and discovered by means of high-throughput \textit{ab initio} calculations based on the 18-electron rule. The 99 new semicond...
1802.04875v1
2005-09-18
Covalent bonding and the nature of band gaps in some half-Heusler compounds
Half-Heusler compounds \textit{XYZ}, also called semi-Heusler compounds, crystallize in the MgAgAs structure, in the space group $F\bar43m$. We report a systematic examination of band gaps and the nature (covalent or ionic) of bonding in semiconducting 8- and 18- electron half-Heusler compounds through first-principles...
0509472v1
2005-10-08
Slater-Pauling Rule and Curie-Temperature of Co$_2$-based Heusler compounds
A concept is presented serving to guide in the search for new materials with high spin polarization. It is shown that the magnetic moment of half-metallic ferromagnets can be calculated from the generalized Slater-Pauling rule. Further, it was found empirically that the Curie temperature of Co$_2$ based Heusler compoun...
0510210v1
2011-09-26
Anomalous Hall effect in the Co-based Heusler compounds Co$_{2}$FeSi and Co$_{2}$FeAl
The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in the Heusler compounds Co$_{2}$FeSi and Co$_{2}$FeAl is studied in dependence of the annealing temperature to achieve a general comprehension of its origin. We have demonstrated that the crystal quality affected by annealing processes is a significant control parameter to tune the elec...
1109.5498v1
2012-11-01
Prediction of topological insulating behavior in Hg2CuTi-type Heusler compounds from first principles
The topological band structures of the X2YZ Heusler compounds with the Hg2CuTi structure are investigated by using first-principles calculations within density functional theory. Our results clearly show that a large number of the Hg2CuTi type Heusler compounds naturally exhibit distinct band-inversion feature, which i...
1211.0190v1
2013-09-27
A first-principles investigation of the thermodynamic and mechanical properties of Ni-Ti-Sn Heusler and half-Heusler materials
First principles calculations of the vibrational, thermodynamic and mechanical properties of the Ni-Ti-Sn Heusler and half-Heusler compounds have been performed. First, we have calculated the Raman and infrared spectra of NiTiSn, providing benchmark theoretical data directly useful for the assignments of its experiment...
1309.7195v1
2015-04-13
Evidence for Localized Moment Picture in Mn-based Heusler Compounds
X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) were used to probe the oxidation state and element specific magnetic moments of Mn in Heusler compounds with different crystallographic structure. The results were compared with theoretical calculations, and it was found that in full Heusl...
1504.03088v1
2021-09-03
Magnetic Properties of the Heusler Ru$_2$Mn$_X$ ($X$ = Nb, Ta or V) Compounds: Monte Carlo Simulations
In this paper, we have focused on a comparison of the different magnetic properties of the three nano-Heusler Ru$_2$Mn$_X$ (X = Nb, Ta or V) compounds using the Blume-Capel Ising model. The Heusler structures are composed by different mixed spins. In fact, the Ru and Mn atoms are modeled by spin-5/2 and spin-1/2, respe...
2109.01708v1
2022-06-23
A general rule for predicting the magnetic moment of Cobalt-based Heusler compounds using compressed sensing and density functional theory
We propose a general rule for estimating the magnetic moments of Co$ 2$(cobalt)-based Heusler alloys, especially when doped with late transition metals. We come up with a descriptor that can characterise both pure Co$_2$YZ compounds and the doped ones with the chemical formula Co$_2$Y$_{1-x}$M$_x$Z (M is the dopant) us...
2206.11635v3
2018-02-11
Heusler, Weyl, and Berry
Heusler materials, initially discovered by Fritz Heusler more than a century ago, have grown into a family of more than 1000 compounds, synthesized from combinations of more than 40 elements. These materials show a wide range of properties, but new properties are constantly being found. Most recently, by incorporating ...
1802.03771v1
2020-10-23
Machine-Learning-based Prediction of Lattice Thermal Conductivity for Half-Heusler Compounds using Atomic Information
The half-Heusler compound has drawn attention in a variety of fields as a candidate material for thermoelectric energy conversion and spintronics technology. This is because it has various electronic structures, such as semi-metals, semiconductors, and a topological insulator. When the half-Heusler compound is incorpor...
2010.12467v1
2023-05-04
Experimental observation of spin glass state in highly disordered quaternary Heusler alloy FeRuMnGa
The realization of spin-glass (S-G) state in Heusler alloys is very rare despite the presence of inherent structural and elemental disorder in those compounds. Although a few half and full Heusler alloys are known to exhibit S-G state, there is hardly any manifestation of the same in cases of quaternary Heusler compoun...
2305.03093v1
2002-05-07
Slater-Pauling Behavior of the Half-Ferromagnetic Full-Heusler Alloys
Using the full-potential screened Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method we study the full-Heusler alloys based on Co, Fe, Rh and Ru. We show that many of these compounds show a half-metallic behavior, however in contrast to the half-Heusler alloys the energy gap in the minority band is extremely small. These full-Heusler compo...
0205129v2
2013-04-01
First-principles investigation of half-metallic ferromagnetism of half-Heusler compounds XYZ
We investigate the electronic structure and magnetism of half-Heusler compounds XYZ (X, Y=V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co and Ni; Z=Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, Sn, P, As, and Sb) using the ab initio density functional theory calculations. Nine half-metals with half-Heusler structure have been predicted with the half-metallic gap of 0.07-0.6...
1304.0344v2
2017-04-06
A critical study of the elastic properties and stability of Heusler compounds: Phase change and tetragonal $X_{2}YZ$ compounds
In the present work, the elastic constants and derived properties of tetragonal and cubic Heusler compounds were calculated using the high accuracy of the full-potential linearized augmented plane wave (FPLAPW). To find the criteria required for an accurate calculation, the consequences of increasing the numbers of $k$...
1704.01741v1
2022-08-04
Ab-initio study of stable 3d, 4d and 5d transition metal based Quaternary Heusler compounds
The realization of the stable structure of Heusler compounds and the study of different properties is an important step for their potential application in spintronics and magnetoelectronic devices. In this paper, using the plane-wave pseudopotential method within the framework of density functional theory (DFT), we inv...
2208.02401v2
2010-10-11
Half-Heusler Topological Insulators: A First-Principle Study with the Tran-Blaha Modified Becke-Johnson Density Functional
We systematically investigate the topological band structures of half-Heusler compounds using first-principles calculations. The modified Becke-Johnson exchange potential together with local density approximation for the correlation potential (MBJLDA) has been used here to obtain accurate band inversion strength and ba...
1010.2179v1
2014-01-24
Performance Analysis of Spin Transfer Torque Random Access Memory with cross shaped free layer using Heusler Alloys by using micromagnetic studies
We investigated the performance of spin transfer torque random access memory (STT-RAM) cell with cross shaped Heusler compound based free layer using micromagnetic simulations. We designed the free layer using Cobalt based Heusler compounds. Here in this paper, simulation results predict that switching time from one st...
1401.6971v1
2018-12-07
Systematic understanding of half-metallicity of ternary compounds in Heusler and Inverse Heusler structures with 3$d$ and 4$d$ elements
Employing {\it ab initio} electronic structure calculations we extensively study ternary Heusler compounds having the chemical formula X$_2$X$^\prime$Z, where X = Mn, Fe or Co; Z = Al or Si; and X$^\prime$ changes along the row of 4$d$ transition metals. A comprehensive overview of these compounds, addressing the trend...
1812.02856v1
2020-03-25
Tetragonal superstructure of the antiskyrmion hosting Heusler compound Mn1.4PtSn
Skyrmions in non-centrosymmetric magnets are vortex-like spin arrangements, viewed as potential candidates for information storage devices. The crystal structure and non-collinear magnetic structure together with magnetic and spin-orbit interactions define the symmetry of the Skyrmion structure. We outline the importan...
2003.11344v1
2021-01-26
Co$_2$FeAl full Heusler compound based spintronic terahertz emitter
To achieve a large terahertz (THz) amplitude from a spintronic THz emitter (STE), materials with 100\% spin polarisation such as Co-based Heusler compounds as the ferromagnetic layer are required. However, these compounds are known to loose their half-metallicity in the ultrathin film regime, as it is difficult to achi...
2101.10911v1
2013-01-31
A New Spin Gapless Semiconductors Family: Quaternary Heusler Compounds
Using first-principles calculations, we investigate the band structures of a series of quaternary LiMgPdSn-type Heusler compounds. Our calculation results show that five compounds CoFeMnSi, CoFeCrAl, CoMnCrSi, CoFeVSi and FeMnCrSb possess unique electronic structures characterized by a half-metallic gap in one spin dir...
1301.7488v1
2016-02-18
Observation of Unusual Topological Surface States in Half-Heusler Compounds LnPtBi (Ln=Lu, Y)
Topological quantum materials represent a new class of matter with both exotic physical phenomena and novel application potentials. Many Heusler compounds, which exhibit rich emergent properties such as unusual magnetism, superconductivity and heavy fermion behaviour, have been predicted to host non-trivial topological...
1602.05633v2
2020-01-06
Giant anomalous Hall and Nernst effect in magnetic cubic Heusler compounds
The interplay of magnetism and topology opens up the possibility for exotic linear response effects, such as the anomalous Hall effect and the anomalous Nernst effect, which can be strongly enhanced by designing a strong Berry curvature in the electronic structure. It is even possible to utilize this to create a quantu...
2001.01698v3
2017-10-03
Search for Thermoelectrics with High Figure of Merit in half-Heusler compounds with multinary substitution
In order to improve the thermoelectric performance of TiCoSb we have substituted 50% of Ti equally with Zr and Hf at Ti site and Sb with Sn and Se equally at Sb site. The electronic structure of Ti0.5Zr0.25Hf0.25CoSn0.5Se0.5 is investigated using the full potential linearized augmented plane wave method and the thermoe...
1710.01012v1
2021-02-03
First principles design of Ohmic spin diodes based on quaternary Heusler compounds
The Ohmic spin diode (OSD) is a recent concept in spintronics, which is based on half-metallic magnets (HMMs) and spin-gapless semiconductors (SGSs). Quaternary Heusler compounds offer a unique platform to realize the OSD for room temperature applications as these materials possess very high Curie temperatures as well ...
2102.01919v1
2021-10-20
Anomalous Hall effect from gapped nodal line in Co2FeGe Heusler compound
Full Heusler compounds with Cobalt as a primary element show anomalous transport properties owing to the Weyl fermions and broken time-reversal symmetry. We present here the study of anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in Co2FeGe Heusler compound. The experiment reveals anomalous Hall conductivity (AHC) 100 S/cm at room temper...
2110.10677v1
2012-10-19
Search for spin gapless semiconductors: The case of inverse Heusler compounds
We employ ab-initio electronic structure calculations to search for spin gapless semiconductors, a recently identified new class of materials, among the inverse Heusler compounds. The occurrence of this property is not accompanied by a general rule and results are materials specific. The six compounds identified show s...
1210.5355v1
2013-09-25
Half metallic state and magnetic properties versus the lattice constant in Ti\raisebox{-.2ex}{\scriptsize 2}CoSn Heusler compound: an ab initio study
The half metallic properties of Ti\raisebox{-.2ex}{\scriptsize 2}CoSn full-Heusler compound is studied within the framework of the density functional theory with the Perdew Burke Ernzerhof generalized gradient approximation (GGA). Structural optimization was performed and the calculated equilibrium lattice constant is ...
1309.6437v1
2013-01-09
New iron-based Heusler compounds Fe2YZ: Comparison with theoretical predictions of the crystal structure and magnetic properties
The present work reports on the new soft ferromagnetic Heusler phases Fe2NiGe, Fe2CuGa, and Fe2CuAl, which in previous theoretical studies have been predicted to exist in a tetragonal regular Heusler structure. Together with the known phases Fe2CoGe and Fe2NiGa these materials have been synthesized and characterized by...
1301.1988v1
2014-10-26
Half-Heusler topological insulators
Ternary semiconducting or metallic half-Heusler compounds with an atomic composition 1:1:1 are widely studied for their flexible electronic properties and functionalities. Recently, a new material property of half-Heusler compounds was predicted based on electronic structure calculations: the topological insulator. In ...
1410.7011v1
2015-11-30
Band structure and transport studies of half Heusler compound DyPdBi: An efficient thermoelectric material
The discovery of Heusler alloys has revolutionized the research field of intermetallics due to the ease with which one can derive potential candidates for multifunctional applications. During recent years, many half Heusler alloys have been investigated for their thermoelectric properties. The f electron based rare ear...
1511.09187v1
2015-11-15
Observation of a topologically non-trivial surface state in half-Heusler PtLuSb (001) thin films
The discovery of topological insulators (TIs), materials with bulk band gaps and protected cross-gap surface states, in compounds such as Bi2Se3 has generated much interest in identifying topological surface states (TSSs) in other classes of materials. In particular, recent theory calculations suggest that TSSs may be ...
1511.04778v3
2006-11-07
Calculated electronic and magnetic properties of the half-metallic, transition metal based Heusler compounds
In this work, results of {\it ab-initio} band structure calculations for $A_2BC$ Heusler compounds that have $A$ and $B$ sites occupied by transition metals and $C$ by a main group element are presented. This class of materials includes some interesting half-metallic and ferromagnetic properties. The calculations have ...
0611179v1
2016-04-18
Itinerant G-type antiferromagnetism in D0$_3$-type V$_3$Z (Z=Al, Ga, In) compounds: A first-principles study
Heusler compounds are widely studied due to their variety of magnetic properties making them ideal candidates for spintronic and magnetoelectronic applications. V$_3$Al in its metastable D0$_3$-type Heusler structure is a prototype for a rare antiferromagnetic gapless behavior. We provide an extensive study on the elec...
1604.05137v1
2020-08-31
Giant magnetocaloric effect driven by first-order magneto-structural transition in cosubstituted Ni-Mn-Sb Heusler compounds: predictions from \textit{Ab initio} and Monte Carlo calculations
Using Density Functional Theory and a thermodynamic model [Physical Review B 86, 134418 (2012)], in this paper, we provide an approach to systematically screen compounds of a given Heusler family to predict ones that can yield giant magnetocaloric effect driven by a first-order magneto-structural transition. We apply t...
2008.13479v1
2018-12-11
Half-metallicity in quaternary Heusler alloys with 3$d$ and 4$d$ elements: observations and insights from DFT calculations
In this work, we provide important insights into the evolution of half-metallicity in quaternary Heusler alloys. Employing {\it ab initio} electronic structure methods we study 18 quaternary Heusler compounds having the chemical formula CoX$^\prime$Y$^\prime$Al, where Y$^\prime$ = Mn, Fe; and X$^\prime$ a 4$d$ element....
1812.04477v1
2017-04-06
A critical study of the elastic properties and stability of Heusler compounds: Cubic Co$_{2}YZ$ compounds with $L2_{1}$ structure
Elastic constants and their derived properties of various cubic Heusler compounds were calculated using first-principles density functional theory. To begin with, Cu$_2$MnAl is used as a case study to explain the interpretation of the basic quantities and compare them with experiments. The main part of the work focuses...
1704.01752v1
2002-04-03
Surface Properties of the Half- and Full-Heusler Alloys
Using a full-potential \textit{ab-initio} technique I study the electronic and magnetic properties of the (001) surfaces of the half-Heusler alloys, NiMnSb, CoMnSb and PtMnSb and of the full-Heusler alloys Co$_2$MnGe, Co$_2$MnSi and Co$_2$CrAl. The MnSb terminated surfaces of the half-Heusler compounds present properti...
0204083v1
2005-06-29
Anomalous vibrational effects in non-magnetic and magnetic Heusler alloys
First-principles calculations are used in order to investigate phonon anomalies in non-magnetic and magnetic Heusler alloys. Phonon dispersions for several systems in their cubic L2$\mathrm{_1}$ structure were obtained along the [110] direction. We consider compounds which exhibit phonon instabilities and compare them ...
0506774v1
2007-02-19
Defects-driven appearance of half-metallic ferrimagnetism in Co-Mn--based Heusler alloys
Half-metallic ferromagnetic full-Heusler alloys containing Co and Mn, having the formula Co$_2$MnZ where Z a sp element, are among the most studied Heusler alloys due to their stable ferromagnetism and the high Curie temperatures which they present. Using state-of-the-art electronic structure calculations we show that ...
0702437v1
2008-01-15
Fundamentals of half-metallic Full-Heusler alloys
Intermetallic Heusler alloys are amongst the most attractive half-metallic systems due to the high Curie temperatures and the structural similarity to the binary semiconductors. In this review we present an overview of the basic electronic and magnetic properties of the half-metallic full-Heusler alloys like Co$_2$MnGe...
0801.2252v1
2012-10-22
Generalized Slater-Pauling rule for the inverse Heusler compounds
We present extensive first-principles calculations on the inverse full-Heusler compounds having the chemical formula X$_2$YZ where (X = Sc, Ti, V, Cr or Mn), (Z = Al, Si or As) and the Y ranges from Ti to Zn. Several of these alloys are identified to be half-metallic magnets. We show that the appearance of half-metalli...
1210.5816v1
2018-08-14
Screening potential topological insulators in half-Heusler compounds via compressed-sensing
Ternary half-Heusler compounds with widely tunable electronic structures, present a new platform to discover topological insulators. Due to time-consuming computations and synthesis procedures, the identification of new topological insulators is however a rough task. Here, we adopt a compressed-sensing approach to rapi...
1808.04748v5
2022-10-24
Ab-initio calculation of the Hubbard $U$ and Hund exchange $J$ in local moment magnets: The case of Mn-based full Heusler compounds
Mn-based full Heusler compounds possess well-defined local atomic Mn moments, and thus the correlation effects between localized d electrons are expected to play an important role in determining the electronic and magnetic properties of these materials. Employing ab-initio calculations in conjunction with the constrain...
2210.13061v1
2006-10-17
Surface and bulk properties of the Heusler compound Co2Cr0.6Fe0.4Al: a Moessbauer study
To explore its structural and magnetic properties, the Heusler compound Co2Cr0.6Fe0.4Al was investigated using Moessbauer spectroscopy. The results of both transmission and conversion electron Moessbauer spectroscopy (CEMS) are analyzed to obtain insight into both the disorder effects as well as the differences between...
0610480v1
2009-04-27
Exchange stiffness in Co$_{2}$-based Heusler compounds
We determine the spin wave exchange stiffness $D$ and the exchange constant $A$ for the full Heusler compound \CFS using Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy. We find an extraordinarily large value of $D=715\pm20$ meV \AA$^2$ ($A=31.5\pm1.0$ pJ/m) which is, to the best of our knowledge, only surpassed by the interme...
0904.4194v1
2010-04-07
Single-Dirac-cone Z2 topological insulator phases in distorted Li2AgSb-class and related quantum critical Li-based spin-orbit compounds
We have extended our new materials class search for the experimental realization of Z2 topological insulators from binary [Bi2Se3-class, Xia et.al., Nature Phys. 5, 398 (2009)] and the ternary [Half-Heusler class, Lin et.al., arXiv:1003.0155v1 (2010); arXiv:1003.2615v1 (2010)] series to non-Heusler Li-based ternary int...
1004.0999v1
2013-09-24
Electronic structure and magnetism of new scandium-based full Heusler compounds: Sc2CoZ (Z=Si, Ge, Sn)
First principles FPLAPWcalculations were performed in the framework of Density Functional Theory (DFT), to study the electronic structures and magnetic properties for the new full-Heusler compounds: Sc2CoZ (Z=Si, Ge, Sn). The investigated materials are stable against decomposition, in ferromagnetic configuration and cr...
1309.6256v3
2015-02-06
Long-term stability of phase-separated Half-Heusler compounds
Half-Heusler (HH) compounds have shown high Figure of merits up to 1.5. The key to these high thermoelectric efficiencies is an intrinsic phase separation, which occurs in multicomponent Half-Heusler compounds and leads to an significantly reduction of the thermal conductivity. For commercial applications, compatible n...
1502.01828v1
2018-01-31
Unconventional superconductivity and Surface pairing symmetry in Half-Heusler Compounds
Signatures of nodal line/point superconductivity have been observed in half-Heusler compounds, such as LnPtBi (Ln = Y, Lu). Topologically non-trivial band structures, as well as topological surface states, has also been confirmed by angular-resolved photoemission spectroscopy in these compounds. In this work, we presen...
1801.10286v1
2012-05-02
Superconductivity in the Heusler Family of Intermetallics
Several physical properties of the superconducting Heusler compounds, focusing on two systems (Y, Lu, Sc)Pd2Sn and APd2M, where A=Hf, Zr and M=Al, In, are summarized and compared. The analysis of the data shows the importance of the electron-phonon coupling for superconductivity in this family. We report the supercondu...
1205.0433v1
2013-02-04
Disorder-induced cubic phase in Fe$_2$-based Heusler alloys
Based on first-principles electronic structure calculations, we analyze the chemical and magnetic mechanisms stabilizing the cubic phase in Fe$_2$-based Heusler materials, which were previously predicted to be tetragonal when being chemically ordered. In agreement with recent experimental data, we found that these comp...
1302.0713v1
2018-02-20
Ultrafast magnetization dynamics in pure and doped Heusler and inverse Heusler alloys
By using a multiscale approach based on first-principles density functional theory combined with atomistic spin dynamics, we investigate the electronic structure and magnetization dynamics of an inverse Heusler and a Heusler compound and their alloys, i. e. Mn$_{2-x}Z_x$CoAl and Mn$_{2-x}Z_x$VAl, where $Z$ = Mo, W, Os ...
1802.07195v1