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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
卷 26, 期 21, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/21/215501
关键词
electronic structures; half-metallic; Seebeck coefficient; resistivity; electronic thermal conductivity
By combining the electronic structures obtained from first principles calculations with Boltzmann transport theory we have investigated the electronic, magnetic and transport properties of the Co2MnGe Heusler compound. The density of state plots, dispersion curves and the total energy of paramagnetic and ferromagnetic (FM) phases clearly show the half-metallic FM ground state for the compound, with an indirect band gap of about 400 meV in the minority spin channel. It has an integer value of the magnetic moment equal to 5 mu(B). In the FM phase a very large value (similar to 550 mu V K-1) of the Seebeck coefficient (S) is obtained for down-spin electrons due to the existence of an almost flat conduction band along X in the G direction. The two-current model has been used to find the total S and the obtained value is about 10 mu V K-1. The calculated values of the Seebeck coefficient, resistivity and electronic thermal conductivity show nice agreement with the experimental results.
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