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Silicon-based spintronics

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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Figure 1: The current approaches to combining semiconducting and magnetic functions (after ref. 4).

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Pearton, S. Silicon-based spintronics. Nature Mater 3, 203–204 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1102

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