A Ślebarski et al 2006 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 18 10319 doi:10.1088/0953-8984/18/46/002
A Ślebarski1,3, J Goraus1, J Deniszczyk2 and Ł Skoczeń1
Show affiliationsThe aim of this work is to investigate electronic structure, magnetic properties and electrical resistivity of Fe2V1−xTixAl Heusler alloys. Numerical calculations give a pseudogap at the Fermi level for the majority-spin band of Fe2TiAl and a magnetic moment larger than 0.9 μB, whereas the ground state of Fe2VAl is calculated as a nonmagnetic semimetal with a very low total density of states at the Fermi level. In our calculations the remaining alloys of the Fe2V1−xTixAl series are nonmagnetic for x<0.1 and weakly magnetic for 0.1<x≤1. The magnetic moment μ of the series of Fe2V1−xTixAl compounds scales with the number of valence electrons and fits well to the Slater–Pauling curve. We also present a study of the electronic transport properties and magnetic susceptibility. The resistivities ρ(T) of Fe2VAl and Fe2V0.9Ti0.1Al are large and exhibit a negative temperature coefficient dρ/dT of the resistivity between 2 and 300 K. Below 20 K, ρ(T) also shows an activated character. The magnetic susceptibility of Fe2VAl and Fe2V0.9Ti0.1Al shows a maximum at ~2 K which could reflect either the disorder effect or the hybridization gap, characteristic of Kondo insulators.
71.20.Be Transition metals and alloys
79.60.-i Photoemission and photoelectron spectra
72.15.Eb Electrical and thermal conduction in crystalline metals and alloys
Issue 46 (22 November 2006)
Received 6 July 2006, in final form 30 August 2006
Published 1 November 2006
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