Optical properties of some half-metallic ferromagnets
P A M van der Heide; W Baelde; R A de Groot; A R de Vroomen; P G van Engen; K H J Buschow; P A M van der Heide; Res. Inst. for Mater., Fac. of Sci., Nijmegen Univ., Netherlands; W Baelde; Res. Inst. for Mater., Fac. of Sci., Nijmegen Univ., Netherlands; R A de Groot; Res. Inst. for Mater., Fac. of Sci., Nijmegen Univ., Netherlands; A R de Vroomen; Res. Inst. for Mater., Fac. of Sci., Nijmegen Univ., Netherlands; P G van Engen; Res. Inst. for Mater., Fac. of Sci., Nijmegen Univ., Netherlands; K H J Buschow; Res. Inst. for Mater., Fac. of Sci., Nijmegen Univ., Netherlands
Журнал:
Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics
Дата:
1985-03-01
Аннотация:
The authors report ellipsometry measurements on polycrystalline samples of NiMnSb and PtMnSb at room temperature under ultra-high vacuum conditions. From these measurements the optical constants of the two materials were determined in the energy range 0.5-5.3 eV. The measured optical conductivities are in reasonable agreement with the optical conductivities calculated from the band structures by de Groot (1983). The band gap for the minority-spin direction is clearly observed and can be brought into agreement with the band-structure calculations by consideration of spin-orbit splitting.
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