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Nature Materials 3, 203 - 204 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nmat1102

Magnetic semiconductors: Silicon-based spintronics

Steve Pearton1

  1. Steve Pearton is at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA. e-mail: spear@mse.ufl.edu


Two reports of ferromagnetism in n-type semiconductors suggest promising avenues for fabricating spintronics devices compatible with current silicon-based electronics.

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