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Nature Materials 2, 646 - 648 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nmat989

Dilute magnetic semiconductors: Functional ferromagnets

Tomasz Dietl1

  1. Tomasz Dietl is at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, al. Lotników 32/46, PL 02 668 Warszawa, Poland. e-mail: dietl@ifpan.edu.pl


Semiconductors doped with small amounts of magnetic impurities such as Mn invariably exhibit room-temperature ferromagnetism. But we don't yet understand why.

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