Scanning tunnelling microscopy of surfaces of half-metals: anab−initiostudy on NiMnSb(001)
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Scanning tunneling microscopy of surfaces of half - metals : an ab - initio study on NiMnSb ( 001 )
We present a first-principles study of the unreconstructed (001) surfaces of the half-metallic ferromagnet NiMnSb. Both terminations (MnSb and Ni) are considered. We find that half-metallicity is lost at the surfaces. After a discussion of the geometric relaxations and the spin-polarized surface band structure, we focus on topography images which are expected to be found with spin-polarized sca...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0022-3727,1361-6463
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/39/5/s05