Figure 1
(a) The Y-type1, Y-type2 and Y-type3 crystal structures of the ordered PdMnTiAl Heusler alloys. The grey, blue, cyan and red spheres represent the elements Pd, Ti, Mn and Al occupying the positions A (0, 0, 0), B (), C () and D (), respectively. (b) The total energies per formula unit for different lattice parameters are obtained from geometry optimization using AkaiKKR (open symbols) and VASP (filled symbols). |