Detecting excitation and magnetization of individual dopants in a semiconductor

Nature

Volumn 467, Issue 7319, 2010, Pages 1084-1087

  Khajetoorians, Alexander A ^a   Chilian, Bruno ^a   Wiebe, Jens ^a   Schuwalow, Sergej ^a   Lechermann, Frank ^a   Wiesendanger, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; IRON; NITROGEN; QUANTUM DOT;

DIAMOND; ELECTRICAL METHOD; ION; MAGNETIZATION; NITROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOSPHORUS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON; EXCITATION; GAS; MAGNETISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 78049372526     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09519     Document Type: Article

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