Room-temperature highly anisotropic ferromagnetism and uniaxial spin amplification in (In,Mn)As quantum dots

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Zhang, X W ^a,b   Fan, W J ^a   Li, S S ^b   Xia, J B ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CURIE TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOELECTRONICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEAN FIELD THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ANISOTROPIC ZEEMAN SPLITTING; SPHERICAL QUANTUM DOTS; UNIAXIAL SPIN AMPLIFICATION;

FERROMAGNETISM;

EID: 38049088216     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2831694     Document Type: Article

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