New diluted ferromagnetic semiconductor with curie temperature up to 180 k and isostructural to the '122' iron-based superconductors

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhao, K ^a   Deng, Z ^a   Wang, X C ^a   Han, W ^a   Zhu, J L ^a   Li, X ^a   Liu, Q Q ^a   Yu, R C ^a   Goko, T ^b   Frandsen, B ^b   Liu, Lian ^b   Ning, Fanlong ^b,c   Uemura, Y J ^b   Dabkowska, H ^d   Luke, G M ^d   Luetkens, H ^e   Morenzoni, E ^e   Dunsiger, S R ^f   Senyshyn, A ^f   Boni P ^f   Jin, C Q ^a   more..

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BARIUM; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; GALLIUM; IRON; LITHIUM; MANGANESE; POTASSIUM; ZINC;

DILUTION; IRON; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEVICES; DILUTION; DOPING; MUON SPIN RELAXATION; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84874612554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2447     Document Type: Article

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