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Dilute magnetic semiconductors

Functional ferromagnets

Nature Materials volume 2, pages 646–648 (2003)Cite this article

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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Figure 1: The dilute magnetic semiconductor (Ga, Mn)As.

Image adapted from Pearton, S. J. et al. Mater. Sci. Eng. R 40, 137–168 (2003). Copyright © 2003 with permission from Elsevier.

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  1. * XVIII International Colloquium on Magnetic Films and Surfaces (ICMFS), Madrid, Spain, 22–25 July, 2003

  2. † International Conference on Magnetism (ICM2003) Rome, Italy, 28 July – 1 August, 2003

  3. ‡ The 2nd International Conference on Semiconductor Spintronics and Quantum Information Technology (SpinTech II) Brugge, Belgium, 4–6 August, 2003

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