FOR 559: New Materials with High Spin Polarisation
Final Report Abstract
Spintronics is an emerging technology exploiting the spin degree of freedom and has proved to be very promising for new types of fast electronic devices. Amongst the anticipated advantages of spintronics technologies, researchers have identified the non-volatile storage of data with high density and low energy consumption as particularly relevant. This research unit examined the concept of half-metallic compounds perspectives to obtain novel solutions, and worked on double perovskites as well as Heusler compounds as a central part. It was demonstrated thas such materials can be designed and made with high spin polarization and, especially in the case of Heusler compounds, many material-related problems present in current-3d metal systems, can be overcome.
Publications
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Spintronics: From Materials to Devices. Springer Verlag (2013) ISBN978-90-481-3831-9
C. Felser and G. H. Fecher, eds.
