Ferromagnetic GaAs/GaMnAs core-shell nanoWires Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3860-3866

  Rudolph, Andreas ^a   Soda, Marcello ^a   Kiessling, Matthias ^a   Wojtowicz, Tomasz ^b   Schuh, Dieter ^a   Wegscheider, Werner ^a,c   Zweck, Josef ^a   Back, Christian ^a   Reiger, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE-SHELL NANOWIRES; EASY AXIS; FERROMAGNETIC TRANSITION TEMPERATURES; GAAS; HIGH QUALITY; LOW TEMPERATURE GROWTH; NANOWIRE GROWTH;

CRYSTAL GROWTH; ELECTRIC WIRE; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; GALLIUM ALLOYS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MOLECULAR BEAMS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

NANOWIRES;

EID: 72849136581     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl9020717     Document Type: Article

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