Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2009-12-09
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 322, 2471 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Scientific paper
We present an extended study of single impurity atoms at the interface between the half-metallic ferromagnetic zinc-blende CrAs compound and the zinc-blende binary InAs and CdSe semiconductors in the form of very thin multilayers. Contrary to the case of impurities in the perfect bulk CrAs studied in [I. Galanakis and S.G. Pouliasis, J. Magn. Magn. Mat. 321 (2009) 1084] defects at the interfaces do not alter in general the half-metallic character of the perfect systems. The only exception are Void impurities at Cr or In(Cd) sites which lead, due to the lower-dimensionality of the interfaces with respect to the bulk CrAs, to a shift of the $p$ bands of the nearest neighboring As(Se) atom to higher energies and thus to the loss of the half-metallicity. But Void impurities are Schottky-type and should exhibit high formation energies and thus we expect the interfaces in the case of thin multilayers to exhibit a robust half-metallic character.
Galanakis Iosif
Lekkas I.
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