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Dilute magnetic semiconductors

Hidden order revealed

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Dilute magnetic semiconductors such as gallium manganese arsenide could be key to the development of spintronics. But the relationship between electronic transport and magnetic properties has been hotly debated. Data indicating the preservation of the non-magnetic character of the host material provide startling new insight.

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Figure 1: Electronic transport near the Fermi level and at higher energies, as determined by the measurements of Ohya and colleagues1.

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