Prof. Dr. Jabbar Mansour Khalaf, a lecturer in the Department of Physics at the College of Education for Pure Sciences at the University of Basra, and master's student Ahmed Hamad Atti published a paper entitled

First-principles study of half-metallicity bulk rocksalt structure of CsTe and its surfaces

In: Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena

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In the publishing house: Elsevier

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Summary

The structural, electronic, magnetic, semi-metallic properties and rock salt of CsTe were calculated using a first-principles method based on density functional theory. Although this compound does not have any transition metal in its formula, it has been found to exhibit ferromagnetic semimetallic properties at both the volumetric structure and surfaces. The energy gap is 3.32 eV at the equilibrium lattice constant of 7.7 Å for the volumetric composition. The modulation energy was calculated as 2.91 volts, which indicates that this compound is stable. All of the above-mentioned properties have great advantages that open up potential job opportunities for researchers to use it in spin electronics applications.