Heusler compounds: Applications in spintronics

Graf T, Felser C, Parkin SS (2015)

Publication Type: Authored book

Publication year: 2015

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

ISBN: 9789400768925

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6892-5_17

Abstract

The history of one of the most exciting material classes can be traced back to the year 1903 when Fritz Heusler discovered that an alloy with the composition Cu2MnAl behaves like a ferromagnet, although none of its constituent elements is magnetic by itself. This class of Heusler compounds offer a degree of flexibility which is lacking in binary and pseudobinary ferromagnetic alloys and such flexibility is absolutely necessary to tackle all the needs of optimized devices. Despite all these interesting properties of Heusler compounds, this chapter will focus on magnetic materials and their applications in the field of spintronics.

Involved external institutions

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU) DE Germany (DE) IBM Research - Almaden US United States (USA) (US)

How to cite

APA:

Graf, T., Felser, C., & Parkin, S.S. (2015). Heusler compounds: Applications in spintronics. Springer Netherlands.

MLA:

Graf, Tanja, Claudia Felser, and Stuart S.P. Parkin. Heusler compounds: Applications in spintronics. Springer Netherlands, 2015.

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