Why Ferromagnetic Semiconductors?

• Authors: T. Dietl
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Rapid development of information technologies originates from the exponential increase in the density of information that can be processed, stored, and transferred by the unit area of relevant devices. There is, however, a growing amount of evidences that the progress achieved in this way approaches its limits. Various novel ideas put forward to circumvent barriers ahead are described. Particular attention is paid to those concepts which propose to exploit electron or nuclear spins as the information carriers. Here, ferromagnetic semiconductors of III-V or II-VI compounds containing a sizable concentration of transition metals appear as outstanding spintronic materials.

Keywords

EN

75.50.Pp; 72.25.Dc; 75.30.Hx; 85.75.-d

Discipline

• 72.25.Dc: Spin polarized transport in semiconductors
• 75.30.Hx: Magnetic impurity interactions
• 75.50.Pp: Magnetic semiconductors
• 85.75.-d: Magnetoelectronics; spintronics: devices exploiting spin polarized transport or integrated magnetic fields

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2001
• Volume: 100
• Issue: Supplement
• Pages: 139-151

Dates

published

2001-12

received

2001-12-18

Contributors

author

T. Dietl

• Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warszawa, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.100.139