First principles study on the electronic structure and magnetism of Fe1-xCoxSi alloys
Hu Zhi-Hui(胡志辉), He Wei(何为), Sun Young(孙阳), and Cheng Zhao-Hua(成昭华)†
State Key Laboratory of Magnetism and Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
Abstract Electronic and magnetic properties of Fe1-xCoxSi alloys were investigated by using a full-potential linear augmented-plane-wave method based on density functional theory. Electronic structure calculation demonstrates that half-metallic property appears in the Fe-rich region of $0<x\leq 0.25$, while the alloys turn out to be a magnetic metal for x > 0.25. The concentration dependence of the magnetic moment of the alloys can be understood by the fixed Fermi level at minority band in Fe-rich region, as well as at the majority band in Co-rich region. In Fe-rich alloys, the electronic structure and the magnetic properties at Fe site depend mainly on the spin-polarization of nearest neighbouring Co atoms, while in Co-rich alloys, these features at Co site arise mainly from the neighbours of Fe atoms.
(Saturation moments and magnetic susceptibilities)
Fund: Project supported by the State Key
Development Program for Basic Research of China (Grant No 2001CB610605), and
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 10474132).
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Hu Zhi-Hui(胡志辉), He Wei(何为), Sun Young(孙阳), and Cheng Zhao-Hua(成昭华) First principles study on the electronic structure and magnetism of Fe1-xCoxSi alloys 2007 Chinese Physics 16 3863
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