Magnetic properties and electronic structure of Cr-diffused SiC(100)

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2709-2711

  Lee, Sung Ho ^a,b   Chung, Yong Chae ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b Samsung Electro Mechanics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMS); electronic structure; energetic stability; surface formation energy; SiC

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008015694     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.878848     Document Type: Article

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