CaB6: A new semiconducting material for spin electronics

H.J. Tromp; P. van Gelderen; Paul J. Kelly; G. Brocks; Peter A. Bobbert

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.016401

CaB6: A new semiconducting material for spin electronics

H.J. Tromp, P. van Gelderen, Paul J. Kelly, G. Brocks, Peter A. Bobbert

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Ferromagnetism was recently observed at unexpectedly high temperatures in La-doped CaB6. The starting point of all theoretical proposals to explain this observation is a semimetallic electronic structure calculated for CaB6 within the local density approximation. Here we report the results of parameter-free quasiparticle calculations of the single-particle excitation spectrum which show that CaB6 is not a semimetal but a semiconductor with a band gap of 0.8±0.1 eV. Magnetism in LaxCa1-xB6 occurs just on the metallic side of a Mott transition in the La-induced impurity band.

Original language	English
Article number	016401
Pages (from-to)	-
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	87
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.016401
Publication status	Published - 2001

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