Room-temperature ferromagnetism in Zn1-xNixS diluted magnetic semiconducting nanocrystalline thin films

Journal of the Korean Physical Society

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2093-2098

  El Hagary, M ^a,b   Soltan, S ^b,c   Emam Ismail, M ^a,d   Althoyaib, S ^a  

^a QASSIM UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Helwan University   (Egypt)

^c Max Plank Institute for Solid State Research   (Germany)

^d Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Magnetic properties of nanostructures; Magnetic semiconductors; Magnetization; Nanocrystalline materials; Wide band gap semiconductors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880011923     PISSN: 03744884     EISSN: 19768524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3938/jkps.62.2093     Document Type: Article

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