The strongly correlated rare earth nitrides display unusual coupled magnetic, electronic and
superconducting properties, with predicted topological states. However, their air …

Rare-earth nitrides are an exciting family of materials with a wide variety of properties
desirable for new physics and applications in spintronics and superconducting devices …

Epitaxial integration of metals and semiconductors can enable enhanced performance and
novel functionality. Achieving such pristine interfaces with superconducting materials is of …

Lanthanide nitride species have recently been shown to be easily formed at ambient
temperatures and low pressures via the reaction of clean lanthanide surfaces with molecular …

GdN and SmN are two of the lanthanide nitrides, most of which are intrinsic ferromagnetic
semiconductors. Superlattices comprising the pair offer a unique opportunity to investigate …

The rare-earth nitrides have recently regained attention due to findings that most members
of the series are intrinsic ferromagnetic semiconductors, a class of materials that is crucial for …

Improvements to computing efficiency are required to offset the energy costs of increasing
demand on cloud computing data centres (the cost of which is currently borne by fossil fuel …

The rare earth nitrides (RENs) are a series of intrinsically ferromagnetic semiconductors with
a range of contrasting magnetic properties across the series due to the filling of their 4f …

In this thesis, we investigate the rare earth nitrides, a family of materials containing many
intrinsic ferromagnetic semiconductors, with a particular focus on GdN and SmN. We …

Rare-earth nitrides are a promising class of materials for application in spintronics, with GdN
a particularly well-studied example. Here we perform band-structure calculations employing …