Discovery of new potential magnetic semiconductors in quaternary Heusler compounds by addition of lanthanides

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/acfaf7

Abstract Magnetic semiconductors have attracted a lot of attention by having both electronic charge and spin degrees of freedom. In this paper, we obtained twenty magnetic semiconductors such as FeVLaSb, FeVPrSb, FeCrTbSi, CoVDySi, and CoVHoSi by adding lanthanides to quaternary Heusler compounds based on the Slater-Pauling law and orbital hybridization theory. The relationship between the lattice constants and energy gaps of the magnetic semiconductors with lanthanide elements is investigated by in-depth analysis. These magnetic semiconductors of quaternary Heusler compounds are promising candidates to find applications as spin filtering materials in spintronics devices.

Keywords: magnetic semiconductor rare-earth element quaternary Heusler compounds

Received: 15 July 2023
Revised: 16 September 2023
Accepted manuscript online: 19 September 2023

PACS:	75.50.Pp	(Magnetic semiconductors)
	72.20.Ee	(Mobility edges; hopping transport)
	71.20.Nr	(Semiconductor compounds)

Fund: Project supported by Inner Mongolia Science Foundation, China (Grant No.2022MS01012) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.11904185).

Corresponding Authors: Yue Wang
E-mail: m05wangy@163.com

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Jin Guo(郭金), Shiyi Feng(冯时怡), Rong Tao(陶容), Guoxia Wang(王国霞), Yue Wang(王越), and Zhifeng Liu(刘志锋) Discovery of new potential magnetic semiconductors in quaternary Heusler compounds by addition of lanthanides 2023 Chin. Phys. B 32 127509

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