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Battle of the bands

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Accurate and extensive measurements of the compositional dependence of the Curie temperature brings us one step closer to solving the puzzle of the origin of ferromagnetism in the model ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As.

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Figure 1: Schematic representation of the valence and impurity bands in (Ga,Mn)As.

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