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Spin polarized conduction and valence band states in GdN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2017

Muhammad Azeem
Muhammad Azeem*
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Department of Applied Physics and Astronomy, University of Sharjah, University City Road, P.O. Box 27272, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand.
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Abstract

Optical transmission spectra are collected in the ferromagnetic state of GdN at various temperatures. The temperature dependent extinction coefficient extracted from the transmission measurements show that the conduction and valence band states are spin polarized. The results confirm the LSDA+U estimates of the energy gap associated with the majority/minority-spins and also the magnitude of the spin splitting.

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ferromagneticsemiconductingspintronic
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MRS Advances , Volume 2 , Issue 3: Electronics, Magnetics and Photonics , 2017 , pp. 153 - 158
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2017 

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