Direct epitaxial integration of the ferromagnetic semiconductor EuO with silicon for spintronic applications

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 6146-6152

  Averyanov, Dmitry V ^a   Sadofyev, Yuri G ^a   Tokmachev, Andrey M ^a   Primenko, Alexey E ^a   Likhachev, Igor A ^a   Storchak, Vyacheslav G ^a  

^a KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

europium monoxide; heteroepitaxy; magnetic semiconductors; silicon; spintronics

Indexed keywords

BUFFER LAYERS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; EUROPIUM COMPOUNDS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SILICON; SPINTRONICS;

EPITAXIAL STABILIZATION; FERROMAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTOR; NON-MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR SPINTRONICS; SPIN-POLARIZED CARRIERS; SPINTRONIC APPLICATIONS; STRUCTURAL AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES;

MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 84925707794     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5089007     Document Type: Article

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