Origin of the anomalous magnetic circular dichroism spectral shape in ferromagnetic Ga1-xMnxAs: Impurity bands inside the band gap

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Ando, K ^a   Saito, H ^a   Agarwal, K C ^a   Debnath, M C ^a   Zayets, V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTION BANDS; DICHROISM; ENERGY GAP; IMPURITIES; MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; OPTICAL TRANSITIONS;

MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM (MCD) SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRAL SHAPE;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 40849106997     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.067204     Document Type: Article

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