Controlling the Curie temperature in (Ga,Mn)As through location of the Fermi level within the impurity band

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 444-449

  Dobrowolska, M ^a   Tivakornsasithorn, K ^a   Liu, X ^a   Furdyna, J K ^a   Berciu, M ^b   Yu, K M ^c   Walukiewicz, W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURIE TEMPERATURE; FERMI LEVEL; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; VALENCE BANDS;

FERROMAGNETIC ORDERINGS; FERROMAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTOR; HOLE LOCALIZATION; HOLE STATE; IMPURITY BANDS; MAGNETO OPTICAL DATA; SEMICONDUCTOR SPINTRONICS; VALENCE-BAND HOLES;

MANGANESE;

EID: 84862777756     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3250     Document Type: Article

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