Cubic MnSb: Epitaxial growth of a predicted room temperature half-metal

JD Aldous, CW Burrows, AM S�nchez, R Beanland…�- Physical Review B�…, 2012 - APS
JD Aldous, CW Burrows, AM S�nchez, R Beanland, I Maskery, MK Bradley…
Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 2012APS
Epitaxial films including bulklike cubic and wurtzite polymorphs of MnSb have been grown
by molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs via careful control of the Sb 4/Mn flux ratio. Nonzero-
temperature density functional theory was used to predict ab initio the half-metallicity of the
cubic polymorph and compare its spin polarization as a function of reduced magnetization
with that of the well known half-metal NiMnSb. In both cases, half-metallicity is lost at a
threshold magnetization reduction, corresponding to a temperature T*< TC. This threshold is�…
Epitaxial films including bulklike cubic and wurtzite polymorphs of MnSb have been grown by molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs via careful control of the Sb/Mn flux ratio. Nonzero-temperature density functional theory was used to predict ab initio the half-metallicity of the cubic polymorph and compare its spin polarization as a function of reduced magnetization with that of the well known half-metal NiMnSb. In both cases, half-metallicity is lost at a threshold magnetization reduction, corresponding to a temperature . This threshold is far higher for cubic MnSb compared to NiMnSb and corresponds to K, making epitaxial cubic MnSb a promising candidate for efficient room temperature spin injection into semiconductors.
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