M. Gradhand, D.V. Fedorov, F. Pientka, P. Zahn, I. Mertig, and
B.L. Göyrffy,
First-principles calculations of the Berry curvature of Bloch states
and the transport of spin and charge by electrons in solids,
Psi-k: Scientific highlight of the month 104 (Feb 2011)
Peter Zahn and Ingrid Mertig,
Enhanced Magnetoresistance
in H. Kronmüller and S. Parkin (eds.),
Handbook of Magnetism and Advanced Magnetic Materials,
John Wiley & Sons (July 2007)
Peter Zahn
Spintronics: Transport Phenomena in Magnetic Nanostructures
in S. Gemming, M. Schreiber, and J.-B. Suck (eds.),
Materials for Tomorrrow,
chap. 3, Springer, Berlin (2007)
Spin Transport
M. Gradhand, D.V. Fedorov, F. Pientka, P. Zahn, I. Mertig, and
B.L. Göyrffy,
Calculating the Berry curvature of Bloch electrons
using the KKR method,
Phys. Rev. B 84, 075113 (2011)
M. Gradhand, D. V. Fedorov, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Extrinsic spin Hall effect from first principles,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 186403 (2010)
M. Gradhand, D. V. Fedorov, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Spin Hall angle versus spin diffusion length: Tailored by impurities,
Phys. Rev. B 81, 245109 (2010)
M. Gradhand, D. V. Fedorov, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Fully relativistic treatment of spin-flip scattering
caused by impurities,
Phys. Rev. B 81, R020403 (2010)
D.V. Fedorov, P. Zahn, M. Gradhand, and I. Mertig,
First principles calculations of spin relaxation times of conduction
electrons in Cu,
Phys. Rev. B 77, 092406 (2008)
Thermoelectric Transport
P. Zahn, N.F. Hinsche, B.Y. Yavorsky, and I. Mertig,
Bi2Te3: Implications of
the rhombohedral k-space texture on
the evaluation of the in-plane/out-of-plane conductivity anisotropy,
J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 23, 505504 (2011),
arXiv:1108.0023 (2011)
Nicki F. Hinsche, Ingrid Mertig, and Peter Zahn,
Effect of strain on the thermoelectric properties of silicon:
An ab initio study,
J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 23, 295502 (2011),
arXiv:1103.2120 (2011)
B.Y. Yavorsky, N.F. Hinsche, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Electronic structure and transport anisotropy of
Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3,
Phys. Rev. B 84, 165208 (2011),
arXiv:1109.0186 (2011)
N.F. Hinsche, B.Y. Yavorsky, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Influence of strain on the anisotropic thermoelectric transport
properties of Bi2Te3 and
Sb2Te3,
Phys. Rev. B 84, 165214 (2011),
arXiv:1108.1304 (2011)
P. Zahn, N.F. Hinsche, B.Y. Yavorsky, and I. Mertig,
Bi2Te3: Implications of
the rhombohedral k-space texture on
the evaluation of the in-plane/out-of-plane conductivity anisotropy,
acc. for J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. (2011),
arXiv:1108.0023 (2011)
Metallic Multilayers, Ultrathin Films, Nanowires, Bulk systems:
Electronic Structure, Spectroscopy, and Transport Properties
Samir Lounis, Peter Zahn, Alexander Weismann, Martin Wenderoth,
Rainer G. Ulbrich, Ingrid Mertig, Peter H. Dederichs,
and Stefan Blügel,
Theory of real space imaging of Fermi surface parts,
Phys. Rev. B 83, 035427 (2011),
arXiv:1010.2112 (2010)
P. Bose, P. Zahn, J. Henk, and I. Mertig,
Spin polarization in photoelectron spectroscopy from
antiferromagnets: Cr films on Fe(110) from first principles,
Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 182, 97
(2010)
Spin polarization on Fermi surfaces of metals by the KKR method
M. Gradhand, M. Czerner, D. V. Fedorov, P. Zahn,
B. Yu. Yavorsky, L. Szunyogh, and I. Mertig
Phys. Rev. B 80, 224413 (2009)
Seeing the Fermi-surface in Real Space by Nanoscale
Electron Focusing,
A. Weismann, M. Wenderoth, S. Lounis, P. Zahn,
N. Quaas, R.G. Ulbrich, P. Dederichs, and S. Blügel,
Science 323, 1190 (2009)
Physical origin of the incommensurate spin spiral structure in
Mn3Si,
M. Hortamani, L. Sandratskii, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
J. of Applied Physics 105, 07E506 (2009)
T. Dziekan, V. Meded, S. Shallcross, B. Hjörvarsson, P. Zahn,
and S. Mirbt,
Influence of Vanadium spin-polarization on the dissolution of Hydrogen
in Vanadium,
Phys. Rev. B 79, 012402 (2009)
T. Dziekan, V. Meded, S. Mirbt, P. Zahn, and S. Shallcross
Anomalies in transition metal conductivity: Strong evidence for Fermi
velocity dominance
Phys. Rev. B 77, 155123 (2008)
D.V. Fedorov, G. Fahsold, A. Pucci, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Mobility of conduction electrons in ultrathin Cu and Fe films on
Si(111)
Phys. Rev. B 75, 245427 (2007)
T. Dziekan, P. Zahn, V. Meded, and S. Mirbt
Theoretical calculations of mobility enhancement in strained silicon
Phys. Rev. B 75, 195213 (2007)
Dmitry V. Fedorov, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig,
Manifestation of quantum confinement in transport properties of ultrathin
metallic films
Thin Solid Films 515, 6921 (2007)
E.N. Voloshina, Yu.S. Dedkov, M. Richter, and P. Zahn
Electronic structure, magnetism, and spin-dependent transport
of CeMnNi4
Phys. Rev. B 73, 144412 (2006)
Denis V. Vyalikh, Peter Zahn, Manuel Richter, Yuri S. Dedkov, and
Serguei L. Molodtsov,
Short-period oscillations in photemission from thin films of Cr(100)
Phys. Rev. B 72, 041402 (2005)
Dmitry V. Fedorov, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig,
Size effects and conductivity of ultrathin Cu films
Thin Solid Films 473, 346 (2005)
B.Y. Yavorsky, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig
About noncollinear magnetic structures in fcc-Fe on Cu(100)
Jour. Mag. Mag. Mat. 290-291, 408-410 (2005)
B. Yu. Yavorsky, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Ab initio study of the magnetic structure of fcc Fe grown on a
Cu(001) substrate
Phys. Rev. B 70, 014413 (2004)
B. Yu. Yavorsky, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
V. Meded, S. Olsson, P. Zahn, B. Hjövarsson, and S. Mirbt,
Resistivity of hydrogen-loaded Fe/V and Mo/V (100)
superlattices: The role of vanadium expansion
Phys. Rev. B 69, 205409 (2004)
Jörg Opitz, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig,
Ab initio calculated electronic structure of metallic nanowires and
nanotubes
Phys. Rev. B 66, 245417 (2002)
P. Zahn, N. Papanikolaou, F. Erler, and I. Mertig,
Evolution of Co/Cu multilayer conductivity during growth: ab intio
study
Phys. Rev. B 65, 134432 (2002)
cond-mat/0109293 (2001)
J. Binder, P. Zahn, I. Mertig, R. Zeller, and P.H. Dederichs
Magnetic properties of impurities and impurity pairs in magnetic
multilayers
Phil. Mag. B 78, 537 (1998)
(pdf, 200k)
Tunneling Magneto Resistance (TMR), Landauer Conductance
Martyna Polok, Dmitry V. Fedorov, Alexei Bagrets,
Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig,
Evaluation of conduction eigenchannels of an adatom
probed by an STM tip,
Phys. Rev. B 83, 245426 (2011),
arXiv:1103.1162 (2011)
P. Bose, P. Zahn, I. Mertig, and J. Henk,
Correlating transmission and local electronic structure
in planar junctions: A tool for analyzing transport
calculations,
Phys. Rev. B 83, 174451 (2011),
arXiv:1012.4936 (2010)
N. F. Hinsche, M. Fechner, P. Bose, S. Ostanin, J. Henk, I. Mertig, P. Zahn,
Strong influence of complex band structure on tunneling electroresistance:
A combined model and ab initio study,
Phys. Rev. B 82, 214110 (2010),
arXiv:1007.3681v1 (2010)
P. Bose, P. Zahn, J. Henk, and I. Mertig,
Tailoring tunnel magnetoresistance by ultrathin Cr and Co interlayers:
A first-principles investigation of Fe/MgO/Fe junctions,
Phys. Rev. B 82, 014412 (2010),
arXiv:1001.2322 (2010)
Christian Heiliger, Peter Zahn, Bogdan Yu. Yavorsky, and Ingrid Mertig,
Thickness dependence of the tunneling current in the coherent limit of
transport,
Phys. Rev. B 77, 224407 (2008)
Martin Gradhand, Christian Heiliger, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig,
Tunneling magnetoresistance with amorphous electrodes,
Phys. Rev. B 77, 134403 (2008)
Peter Zahn, Patrik Thunström, and Tomas Johnson,
Complex Band Structures of Spintronics Materials,
in Björn Enquist, Per Lötstedt and Olof Runborg (eds.),
Multiscale Modeling and Simulation in Science,
Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Vol. 66,
Springer, Berlin (September 2008)
Christian Heiliger, Martin Gradhand, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig,
Tunneling Magnetoresistance on the sub-nanometer scale
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 066804 (2007)
Christian Heiliger, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig
Influence of interface oxidation on the TMR ratio of Fe/MgO/Fe tunnel
junctions
Jour. Mag. Mag. Mat. 316, 478-480 (2007)
Christian Heiliger, Peter Zahn, Bogdan Yu. Yavorsky, and Ingrid Mertig
Interface structure and bias dependence of Fe/MgO/Fe tunnel junctions:
Ab initio calculations
Phys. Rev. B 73, 214441 (2006)
Christian Heiliger, Peter Zahn, Bogdan Yu. Yavorsky, and Ingrid Mertig
Influence of the interface structure on the bias
dependence of tunneling magnetoresistance
Phys. Rev. B 72, 180406(R) (2005)
Peter Zahn and Ingrid Mertig,
Landauer conductance of tunnel junctions: Strong impact from boundary
conditions
Phil. Mag. B 84 2949 (2004)
cond-mat/0310703 (2003)
N. Papanikolaou, J. Opitz, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Spin-filter effect in metallic nanowires
Phys. Rev. B 66, 165441 (2002)
Ingmar Riedel, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig
Ab intio calculation of the transmission coefficients from a
superlattice electronic structure
Phys. Rev. B 63, 195403 (2001)
cond-mat/0011059 (2000)
Giant Magneto Resistance (GMR)
Peter Zahn, Jörg Binder, and Ingrid Mertig,
Impurity scattering and quantum confinement in giant magnetoresistance
systems
Phys. Rev. B 68, 100403(R) (2003)
M.Ye. Zhuravlev, W. Schepper, S. Heitmann, H. Vinzelberg, P. Zahn,
I. Mertig, H.O. Lutz, A.V. Vedyayev, G. Reiss, and A. Hütten,
Reliable prediction of giant magnetoresistance characteristics
Phys. Rev. B 65, 144428 (2002)
J. Binder, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Scattering anisotropy and giant magnetoresistance in magnetic
multilayers
J. of Applied Physics 89, 7107 (2001)
Frido Erler, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig
Finite-size effects in giant magnetoresistance: an ab initio calculation
Phys. Rev. B 64, 094408 (2001)
J. Binder, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig
Ab initio calculations of Giant MagnetoResistance
J. of Applied Physics 87, 5182 (2000)
P. Zahn, J. Binder, I. Mertig, R. Zeller, and P.H. Dederichs
Origin of giant magnetoresistance: Bulk or interface scattering?
Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 (19), 4309 (1998)
J. Binder, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig
Inverse Giant MagnetoResistance in Fe/Cu/Co/Cu multilayers
Jour. of Mag. and Mag. Mat. 165, 100-103 (1997)
(ps, 1.4M)
M. Richter, V.N. Antonov, P. Zahn, P.M. Oppeneer, M. Davis, A.Ya. Perlov,
I. Mertig, S.V. Halilov, and H. Eschrig
Ab initio calculations of the giant magnetoresistance in uranium
intermetallics
J. of Applied Physics 81, 5538 (1997)
M. Richter, P. Zahn, M. Divis, and I. Mertig
Giant MagnetoResistance in uranium intermetallics: Ab initio
calculations for U2Pd2In and
U2Pd2Sn
Phys. Rev. B 54, 11985 (1996)
(ps, 290k)
P. Zahn, I. Mertig, M. Richter, and H. Eschrig
Ab inito calculations of the Giant Magnetoresistance
Phys. Rev. Lett. 75 (16), 2996 (1995)
(ps, 430k)
I. Mertig, P. Zahn, M. Richter, H. Eschrig, R. Zeller,
P. H. Dederichs,
Ab initio calculation of residual resistivity in dilute Fe alloys
and Giant MagnetioResistance in Fe/Cr multilayers,
J. of Mag. and Mag. Mat. 151, 363 (1995)
Magnetic Interlayer Exchange Coupling
Peter Zahn and Ingrid Mertig,
c(2x2) Interface Alloys in Co/Cu Multilayers- Influence on
Interlayer Exchange Coupling and GMR
Phys. Rev. B 63, 104412 (2001)
cond-mat/0009213 (2000)
J. Opitz, P. Zahn, J. Binder, and I. Mertig
Ab initio Calculation of the Interlayer Exchange Coupling in Fe/Au -
Multilayers:
The Role of Impurities at the Interface
Phys. Rev. B 63, 094418 (2001)
J. Opitz, P. Zahn, J. Binder, and I. Mertig
Interlayer Exchange Coupling in Fe/Au Multilayers
J. of Applied Physics 87, 6588 (2000)
P. Zahn, I. Mertig, R. Zeller, and P.H. Dederichs
Screened KKR with hard core potentials
Phil. Mag. B 78, 411 (1998)
(pdf, 140k)
J. Opitz, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig
Interlayer exchange coupling: a comparison of two theoretical concepts
Phil. Mag. B 78, 557 (1998)
(pdf, 220k)
P. Zahn, I. Mertig, R. Zeller, and P.H. Dederichs
Tight binding KKR - Application to CoCu(001):
Electronic structure and transport
Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 475, 525 (1997),
(ps,140k)
Electronic Structure of Materials
Matthias Schneider, Dieter Lipp, Alexander Gladun, Peter Zahn, Axel
Handstein, Günter Fuchs,
Stefan-Ludwig Drechsler, Manuel Richter, Karl-Hartmut Müller, Helge
Rosner,
Heat and Charge Transport Properties of MgB2
Physica C 363, 6 (2001)
cond-mat/0105429 (2001)
S.-L. Drechsler, S.V. Shulga, K.-H. Müller,
G. Fuchs, J. Freudenberger,
G. Behr, H. Eschrig, L. Schultz, M.S. Golden, H. von
Lips, J. Fink, V.N. Narozhnyi, H. Rosner, P. Zahn, A. Gladun, D. Lipp,
A. Kreyssig, M. Loewenhaupt, K. Köpernik, K. Winzer, K. Krug
Superconducting rare earth transition metal borocarbides
Physica C 318, 117 (1999)
(ps, 1.4M)
L. M. Sandratski, J. Kübler, P. Zahn, and I. Mertig,
Electronic structure, magnetic, and Fermi surface properties of
UPd2Al3
Phys. Rev. B 50 (21), 15834 (1994)
Applied Science
Clemens Otto, Susann Zahn, Felix Rost,
Peter Zahn, Doris Jaros, and Harald Rohm,
Physical Methods for Cleaning and Disinfection of Surfaces,
Food Engin. Rev. 3, 171-188 (2011)