Insights into the local electronic structure of semiconducting boron carbides in the vicinity of transition metal dopants

Materials Science and Engineering: B

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Luo, Guangfu ^a,b   Lu, Jing ^b   Liu, Jing ^c   Mei, Wai Ning ^a   Dowben, P A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Band gaps; Local magnetic order in a semiconductor matrix; Semiconducting boron carbides; Spin tunnel junctions; Transition metal doping

Indexed keywords

COPPER COMPOUNDS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

3D TRANSITION METALS; A: SEMICONDUCTORS; LOCAL ELECTRONIC STRUCTURES; LOCAL MAGNETIC ORDER IN A SEMICONDUCTOR MATRIX; MAGNETIC ORDERS; SEMICONDUCTING BORON CARBIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR MATRICES; SPIN TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; TRANSITION METAL ATOMS; TRANSITION METAL DOPING;

ENERGY GAP;

EID: 77956967619     PISSN: 09215107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mseb.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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