  Transparent Conductors (TCs) exhibit optical transparency and electron
conductivity, and are essential for many opto-electronic and photo-voltaic
devices. The most common TCs are electron-doped oxides, which have few
limitations when transition metals are used as dopants. Non-oxides TCs have the
potential of extending the class of materials to the magnetic realm, bypass
technological bottlenecks, and bring TCs to the field of spintronics. Here we
propose new functional materials that combine transparency and conductivity
with magnetic spin polarization that can be used for spintronic applications,
such as spin filters. By using high-throughput first-principles techniques, we
identified a large number of potential TCs, including non-oxides materials. Our
results indicate that proper doping with transition metals introduces a finite
magnetization that can provide spin filtering up to 90% in the electrical
conductivity, still maintaining a transparency greater than 90%.
