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The electronic structure of bulk fcc GaAs, fcc and tetragonal CrAs, and CrAs/GaAs supercells, computed within LMTO local spin-density functional theory, is used to extract the band alignment (band offset) for the [1,0,0] GaAs/CrAs interface in dependence of the spin orientation. With the lateral lattice constant fixed to the experimental bulk GaAs value, a local energy minimum is found for a tetragonal CrAs unit cell with a slightly ($approx$ 2%) reduced longitudinal ([1,0,0]) lattice constant. Due to the identified spin-dependent band alignment, half-metallicity of CrAs no longer is a key requirement for spin-filtering. Encouraged by these findings, we study the spin-dependent tunneling current in [1,0,0] GaAs/CrAs/GaAs heterostructures within the non-equilibrium Greens function approach for an effective tight-binding Hamiltonian derived from the LMTO electronic structure. Results indicate that these heterostructures are probable candidates for efficient room-temperature all-semiconductor spin-filtering devices.
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