TY - JOUR
T1 - Families of magnetic semiconductors - An overview
AU - Dietl, Tomasz
AU - Bonanni, Alberta
AU - Ohno, Hideo
N1 - Funding Information:
The work of T. D. is supported by the Foundation for Polish Science through the IRA Programme financed by EU within SG OP Programme. A. B. acknowledges a support by the Austrian Science Foundation - FWF (P31423 and P26830) and by the Austrian Exchange Service (OAD) Project PL-01/2017.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The interplay of magnetic and semiconducting properties has been in the focus for more than a half of the century. In this introductory article we briefly review the key properties and functionalities of various magnetic semiconductor families, including europium chalcogenides, chromium spinels, dilute magnetic semiconductors, dilute ferromagnetic semiconductors and insulators, mentioning also sources of non-uniformities in the magnetization distribution, accounting for an apparent high Curie temperature ferromagnetism in many systems. Our survey is carried out from today's perspective of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic spintronics as well as of the emerging fields of magnetic topological materials and atomically thin 2D layers.
AB - The interplay of magnetic and semiconducting properties has been in the focus for more than a half of the century. In this introductory article we briefly review the key properties and functionalities of various magnetic semiconductor families, including europium chalcogenides, chromium spinels, dilute magnetic semiconductors, dilute ferromagnetic semiconductors and insulators, mentioning also sources of non-uniformities in the magnetization distribution, accounting for an apparent high Curie temperature ferromagnetism in many systems. Our survey is carried out from today's perspective of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic spintronics as well as of the emerging fields of magnetic topological materials and atomically thin 2D layers.
KW - 2D systems
KW - magnetic and dilute magnetic semiconductors
KW - topological materials
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U2 - 10.1088/1674-4926/40/8/080301
DO - 10.1088/1674-4926/40/8/080301
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85072952243
VL - 40
JO - Journal of Semiconductors
JF - Journal of Semiconductors
SN - 1674-4926
IS - 8
M1 - 080301
ER -