Tailoring ferromagnetic chalcopyrites

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 410-414

  Erwin, Steven C ^a   Žutić, Igor ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ENTHALPY; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CHALCOPYRITES; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY (DFT); SPIN POLARIZATION; ZENER MODEL;

MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 2942576233     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1127     Document Type: Article

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