Abstract
Electronic structures and half-metallicity at ferromagneticantiferromagnetic (AFM) interfaces in zincblende transition-metal chalcogenides, CrSeMnSe and CrTeMnTe, are investigated by means of the first principles full-potential linearized augmented plane-wave method within the LDA+U, and the effect of correlation in the 3d states on the half-metallic interfaces is discussed. The uncompensated AFM interface with the antiparallel alignment of the Cr and Mn moments at the interfaces shows an excellent half-metallicity, where the correlation effect tends to manifest the half-metallic interfaces. This indicates that these interfaces offer a key ingredient as promising exchange bias candidates in having interfaces with 100% spin polarization at the Fermi level.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 07C901 |
Journal | Journal of Applied Physics |
Volume | 103 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2008 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy(all)