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Fabrication of Spatially Confined Complex Oxides
Published on: July 1, 2013
Robust half-metallic character and large oxygen magnetism in a perovskite cuprate
Xiangang Wan1, Masanori Kohno, Xiao Hu
1Computational Materials Science Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0047, Japan.
Abstract:
The new perovskite cuprate material Sr8CaRe3Cu4O24, which behaves ferrimagnetically and shows an unusually high Curie temperature (T(C) approximately 440 K), is found from density-functional theory calculation to display several surprising properties after hole doping or chemical substitution: (1) Half metal (HM) is realized by replacing Re with W or Mo while T(C) remains high; (2) hole-doped Sr8CaRe3Cu4O24 is also HM with high T(C). Moreover, we find that the O atoms will carry a large magnetic moment after hole doping, which is in sharp contrast to the generally accepted concept that magnetism in solids requires partially filled shells of d or f electrons in cations. The material Sr8CaRe3Cu4O24 is therefore expected to provide a very useful platform for material design and development.
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