Element specific versus integral structural and magnetic properties of Co: ZnO and Gd: GaN probed with hard x-ray absorption spectroscopy

Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3565-3613

  Ney, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dilute magnetic semiconductors; Magnetic properties; X ray absorption spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DILUTE MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCES (EPR); ELEMENT SPECIFICITY; FERROMAGNETIC ORDERINGS; SPIN-POLARIZED CARRIERS; STRUCTURAL AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; X-RAY LINEAR DICHROISMS; X-RAY MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM;

GALLIUM NITRIDE; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTING ANTIMONY; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAYS; ZINC OXIDE;

GADOLINIUM;

EID: 79551564810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma3063565     Document Type: Article

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