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Nature Materials 6, 403 - 404 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nmat1918

Ferromagnetic semiconductors: Ruled by a magnetic-rich minority

Nitin Samarth1

  1. Nitin Samarth is in the Department of Physics, Penn State University, 104 Davey Lab, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-6300, USA. e-mail: nsamarth@psu.edu


Ferromagnetic clusters within magnetic semiconductors have long been regarded as the bane of semiconductor spintronics. However, they can actually be used to tailor desirable spintronic functionality.

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