Warping a single Mn acceptor wavefunction by straining the GaAs host

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 512-515

  Yakunin, A M ^a   Silov, A Yu ^a   Koenraad, P M ^a   Tang, J M ^b   Flatte M E ^b   Primus, J L ^c   Van Roy, W ^c   De Boeck, J ^c   Monakhov, A M ^d   Romanov, K S ^d   Panaiotti, I E ^d   Averkiev, N S ^d  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

^d IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

ACCEPTOR STATES; ACCEPTOR-STATE WAVEFUNCTIONS; LOCAL STRAINS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 34547283989     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1936     Document Type: Article

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