H. Akinaga et al., Material design of half-metallic zinc-blende CrAs and the synthesis by molecular-beam epitaxy, JPN J A P 2, 39(11B), 2000, pp. L1118-L1120
A new class of half-metallic ferromagnets has been found in the zinc-blende
crystal structure. The previously nonexistent zinc-blende CrAs thin films
have been synthesized on GaAs (001) substrates by molecular-beam epitaxy, a
nd show a ferromagnetic behavior at room temperature. The zinc-blende CrAs
has been designed by ab initio calculations based on the local spin-density
approximation, and the calculation predicts the highly spin-polarized elec
tronic band structure.