First-principles investigation of electronic structure, effective carrier masses, and optical properties of ferromagnetic semiconductor CdCr<sub>2</sub>S<sub>4</sub>

First-principles investigation of electronic structure, effective carrier masses, and optical properties of ferromagnetic semiconductor CdCr₂S₄

Zhu Xu-Hui^{1, 2}, Chen Xiang-Rong^{1, 3, †,}, Liu Bang-Gui^{2, ‡,}

Energy bands of CdCr₂S₄ calculated with mBJ (a) and with mBJ-SOC (b).