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Articles written in Bulletin of Materials Science
Volume 44 All articles Published: 27 July 2021 Article ID 0221
MANSOUR BENIDRIS ZOUBIR AZIZ SHAKEEL AHMAD KHANDY SABRIA TERKHI MUHAMMAD AFTAB AHMAD BOUABDELLAH BOUADJEMI MOHAMMED ABDERRAHIM BENNANI AMEL LAREF
We hereby discuss the structural stability of Fe$_2$CrSb via energetic considerations, phonon dynamics and mechanical aspects. Later, the electronic, magnetic and thermoelectric properties are discussed in order to reach out the possible explanations of the observed half-metallic bandgap and other physical properties. Phonon dispersion of Fe$_2$CrSb with positive-only frequencies accompanied by the observed elastic parameters indicate the dynamic stability and mechaneablity of this alloy. The relaxed and optimized structural calculations predict the ferromagnetic Cu$_2$MnAl-type L$_{21}$ phase as the stable one. This compound has a half-metallic ferromagnetic character with an integer magnetic moment of 3 ${\mu}$B, which is in good agreement with the Slater–Pauling (SP) rule. Finally, we have pronounced the thermoelectric performance against the temperature range of 50–800 K using Boltzman transport theory. The room temperature Figure of merit (0.54) reaches to maximum of 0.67 at 800 K, indicating that Fe$_2$CrSb can work at low as well as high temperature thermoelectric devices operations.
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