The half-metallicity of CoS2, important for its possible use in spintronic applications. is investigated by means of density functional full-potential linearized augmented plane wave calculations within both the local spin-density approximation (LSDA) and the generalized gradient approximation (GGA). In contrast with earlier and our own predictions employing the LSDA, we find that CoS2 is clearly half-metallic with use of the GGA for the exchange-correlation functional. While the GGA induced modifications of the band structure are significant, they are limited to only the e(g down arrow) state which is responsible for producing the half-metallicity, while leaving all other features the same as those obtained by LSDA. We address the recently measured reflectivity spectra and rectify the assignments given for their underlying optical transitions.
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