Ternary intermetallic Heusler compounds, originally discovered by a German mining engineer and chemist in 1903, may show exotic topological insulator behaviour unknown to science just five years ago.
Half-Heusler compounds based on XNiSn and XCoSb (X = Ti, Zr or Hf) have rapidly become important thermoelectric materials for converting waste heat into electricity. In this Review, we provide an ...
The joint Russian-American paper makes advances in studying energy conversion efficiency, which is important for applications in 'green' tech. Associate Professor Farit Vagizov (Kazan Federal ...
It is the breakthrough that physicists and chemists around the world have long anticipated and it will play a pivotal role in information technology in coming years. Researchers have managed, for the ...
“Our review article can serve as an ideal reference for researchers in magnetic materials,” says Atsufumi Hirohata of the University of York, UK, who specializes in spintronics. Spintronics, also ...
Scientists have written a review paper about magnetic topological materials in the family of Heusler compounds. The review explains the connection between topology, symmetry and magnetism at a level ...
The next great technological innovation, the color television or iPhone of our time, might be enabled by novel advanced electronic materials called Heuslers. What are Heusler materials? Named for the ...
(Nanowerk News) Fritz Heusler (1866-1947), Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) and Michael Berry (1941-) are three renowned scientists whose work has led to new and important insights into materials science, ...