A ten-year perspective on dilute magnetic semiconductors and oxides.

By T. Dietl. Nature Materials, 2010

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Over the past ten years, the search for compounds combining the properties of semiconductors and ferromagnets has evolved into an important field of materials science. This endeavour has been fuelled by many demonstrations of remarkable low-temperature functionalities in the ferromagnetic structures (Ga,Mn)As and p-(Cd,Mn)Te, and related compounds, and by the theoretical prediction that magnetically doped, p-type nitride and oxide semiconductors might support ferromagnetism mediated by valence-band holes to above room temperature. Indeed, ferromagnetic signatures persisting at high temperatures have been detected in a number of non-metallic systems, even under conditions in which the presence of spin ordering was not originally anticipated. Here I review recent experimental and theoretical developments, emphasizing that they not only disentangle many controversies and puzzles accumulated over the past decade but also offer new research prospects.

Subfields: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry

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In Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

1. Hideo Ohno
2. T. Dietl
3. Y. Tserkovnyak
4. T. Jungwirth
5. Wei Han
6. Allan H. MacDonald
7. A. Slavin
8. Igor Zutic

In Materials Chemistry

1. T. Dietl
2. Hideo Ohno
3. T. Jungwirth
4. Allan H. MacDonald
5. Wei Han
6. Axel Hoffmann
7. Igor Zutic
8. D. Ralph

Citations in the corpus

• Magnon Transport in Quasi-Two-Dimensional van der Waals Antiferromagnets (2019, background): “Because of their 2D nature, efficient electrical control of magnetism in 2D ferromagnetic materials has also been explored [3,23-26], which provides an alternative route towards high-temperature ferromagnetic semiconductors [27,28].”
• Zinc oxide particles: Synthesis, properties and applications (2012, background): “This field is still in its earliest phases, however, and no ignificant commercial application of semi-conductor spintronics as emerged yet [129].”
• Interface-Induced Phenomena in Magnetism (2016, positive): “These issues were highlighted in the contentious effort to confirm or eliminate ferromagnetism in dilute magnetic oxides [Coey et al., 2008; Dietl, 2010], and in studies of d magnetism in materials such as SrTiO3 [Coey et al.”
• Roadmap for Emerging Materials for Spintronic Device Applications (2015, background): “1), despite numerous reports for TC > 300 K in many semiconductors, a reliable RT ferromagnetic semiconductor remains elusive [36], [37].”
• First principles design of spintronics materials (2016, neutral): “See recent reviews about DMSs [22-24].”
• Dilute ferromagnetic semiconductors: Physics and spintronic structures (2013, methodology): “E made it possible to evaluate a reduction of M(T ) by spin wave excitations (König et al., 2001; Werpachowska and Dietl, 2010a).”