Magnetism in Cu-doped rutile SnO2 semiconductor induced by the RKKY interaction

Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 581-586

  Cheng, Jie ^a   Zhou, Jing ^b   Li, Jiong ^b   Dong, Peng ^a   Wu, Ziyu ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Electronic structure; First principles calculation; Magnetic semiconductor; RKKY interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894904959     PISSN: 15571939     EISSN: 15571947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10948-013-2313-2     Document Type: Article

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