Spin transport and carrier-mediated magnetism in magnetic semiconductor heterostructures

Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 198-202

  Samarth, Nitin ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2DEG two dimensional electron gas; IQHE integer quantum Hall effect; MR magnetoresistance; MS magnetic semiconductor; RKKY Ruderman Kittel Kasuya Yosida

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007136507     PISSN: 13590286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0286(98)80089-2     Document Type: Article

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