On the origin of high-temperature ferromagnetism in the low-temperature-processed Mn-Zn-O system

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 709-714

  Kundaliya, Darshan C ^a   Ogale, S B ^a,b   Lofland, S E ^c   Dhar, S ^a   Metting, C J ^c   Shinde, S R ^a   Ma, Z ^b   Varughese, B ^a   Ramanujachary, K V ^c   Salamanca Riba, L ^b   Venkatesan, T ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DATA REDUCTION; FILM GROWTH; HEATING; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; RUTHERFORD BACKSCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; THIN FILMS; WAVELENGTH DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

AXIAL CHANNELLING; FERROMAGNETIC SIGNALS; INTERFACE DIFFUSION; ION-CHANNELLING TECHNIQUES; OXIDE-BASED SYSTEMS;

FERROMAGNETISM;

MANGANESE; MANGANESE DERIVATIVE; MANGANESE OXIDE; OXIDE; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MAGNETISM; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

MAGNETICS; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; OXIDES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 5444229156     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1221     Document Type: Article

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