The essential role of carefully optimized synthesis for elucidating intrinsic material properties of (Ga,Mn)As

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Namec P ^a   Novak V ^b   Tesarova N ^a   Rozkotova E ^a   Reichlova H ^a,b   Butkovicova D ^a   Trojanek F ^a   Olejnik K ^b   Maly P ^a   Campion, R P ^c   Gallagher, B L ^c   Sinova, Jairo ^b,d   Jungwirth, T ^b,c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; GALLIUM; MANGANESE;

DATA SET; HOMOGENEITY; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; OPTICAL PROPERTY; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; RESEARCH WORK;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; GALLIUM MANGANESE ARSENIDE; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MICROSCOPY; PARAMETERS; PHYSICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; SYNTHESIS; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84875353590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2426     Document Type: Article

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