Heusler alloys, discovered serendipitously at the beginning of the twentieth century, have
emerged in the twenty-first century as exciting materials for numerous remarkable functional …

Heusler alloys are theoretically predicted to become half-metals at room temperature (RT).
The advantages of using these alloys are good lattice matching with major substrates, high …

The field of spintronics has attracted tremendous attention recently owing to its ability to offer
a solution for the present-day problem of increased power dissipation in electronic circuits …

Magnetoresistive (MR) sensors have been identified as promising candidates for the
development of high-performance magnetometers due to their high sensitivity, low cost, low …

The structural, magnetic, electronic, elastic and mechanical properties of full-Heusler
compounds Co 2 YAl (Y= Fe, Ti), in L2 1 type structure are determined using the density …

Novel information processing techniques are being actively explored to overcome
fundamental limitations associated with CMOS scaling. A new paradigm of adaptive …

In recent years, spin-gapless semiconductors (SGSs) with parabolic and linear band
dispersions have aroused great interest worldwide in the field of materials science due to …

The high Curie temperatures and compatible lattice structure with conventional
semiconductors for half-metallic Co2FeZ and Co2CrZ (Z= Al, Si, Ga, Ge) inspired us to …

Ferrimagnetic Mn 3 Ga exhibits a unique combination of low saturation magnetization (M s=
0.11 MA m-1) and high perpendicular anisotropy with a uniaxial anisotropy constant of K u …

Spin transistors are a new concept device that unites an ordinary transistor with the useful
functions of a spin (magnetoresistive) device. They are expected to be a building block for …