Magnetic properties of single crystalline Gei-xMnx nanowires

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4085-4088

  Kazakova, Olga ^a   Van Der Meulen, MacHteld I ^b,c   Petkov, Nikolay ^b   Holmes, Justin D ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Ferromagnetic materials; Germanium compounds; Magnetic semiconductors; Nanowires

Indexed keywords

EFFLUENT TREATMENT; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; GERMANIUM OXIDES; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; POLARONS; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS;

BOUND MAGNETIC POLARONS; FERROMAGNETIC ORDERINGS; LIQUID SOLIDS; MAGNETIZATION MEASUREMENTS; ROOM TEMPERATURE FERROMAGNETISM; SATURATION MOMENT; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; STRUCTURAL TECHNIQUES;

FERROMAGNETISM;

EID: 70350587344     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2023073     Document Type: Article

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