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We have investigated the magnetic properties of (Ga,Mn)As thin films with Mn concentration between 1 and 9%. Ferromagnetic transition temperatures TC of up to 173K are observed. The results are compared to the predictions of the Zener…
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We report the magnetic and transport properties of Ga1-xMnxP synthesized via ion implantation followed by pulsed laser melting over a range of x, namely 0.018 to 0.042. Like Ga1-xMnxAs, Ga1-xMnxP displays a monotonic increase of the…
Earlier theoretical results on $p$-$d$ and $d$-$d$ exchange interactions for zinc-blende semiconductors with $\mathrm{Cr}^{2{+}}$ and $\mathrm{Mn}^{3{+}}$ ions are revisited and extended by including contributions beyond the dominating…
A review is given of advances in the field of carrier-controlled ferromagnetism in Mn-based diluted magnetic semiconductors and their nanostructures. Experimental results for III-V materials, where the Mn atoms introduce both spins and…
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We report on the magnetic and magnetotransport properties of ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As modified by Ga$^{+}$ ion irradiation using focused ion beam. A marked reduction in the conductivity and the Curie temperature is induced…
The nature of the often reported room temperature ferromagnetism in transition metal doped oxides is still a matter of huge debate. Herein we report on room temperature ferromagnetism in high quality Co-doped ZnO (Zn1-xCoxO) bulk samples…
The effects of planar hole concentration, p, and magnetic field on the resistivity, rho(T), of high-quality c-axis oriented crystalline thin films and sintered Y1-xCaxBa2(Cu1-yZny)3O7-delta samples were investigated over a wide range of Ca,…
We performed high pressure experiments on La(0.8)Ca(0.2-x)Sr(x)MnO(3) (LCSMO) (0<x< 0.2) ceramic samples in order to analyze the validity of the well known relation between the A mean ionic radius (<rA>) and the Curie temperature Tc of…
A study on temperature dependent magnetic properties of single phase orthorhombic perovskites system associated with space group Pbnm compounds Pr1-x(Gd/Nd)xMnO3 (x=0.3, 0.5, 0.7) was carried out. A magnetization reversal is observed below…
Using hybrid density functional theory, we address point defects susceptible to cause charge compensation upon Mg doping of GaN. We determine the free energy of formation of the nitrogen vacancy and of several Mg-related defects. The…
The electronic structure of diluted (Ga,Mn)As magnetic semiconductors in the presence of As-antisites and magnetic disorder is studied within the framework of the local spin density approximation. Both the chemical and magnetic disorders…
We report the effect of germanium as n-type dopant on the electrical and optical properties of AlxGa1-xN layers grown by plasma assisted molecular-beam epitaxy. The Al content has been varied from x = 0 to 0.66, confirmed by Rutherford…
The realization of semiconductors that are ferromagnetic above room temperature will potentially lead to a new generation of spintronic devices with revolutionary electrical and optical properties. Transition temperatures in doped ZnO are…
We explore the impact of introducing IIIA-group element Ga in place of IIB-group element Zn in binary intermetallic GdZn on its magnetic and magnetocaloric properties, as well as explicate the modified electronic band structure of the…
We report magnetism in carbon doped ZnO. Our first-principles calculations based on density functional theory predicted that carbon substitution for oxygen in ZnO results in a magnetic moment of 1.78 $\mu_B$ per carbon. The theoretical…
We investigate how chemical substitution reshapes the energetics of twin formation in non-modulated (NM) Ni-Mn-Ga martensite. Using density functional theory, we compute generalized planar fault energy (GPFE) curves for the…
After more than a decade of intensive research in the field of diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMS), the nature and origin of ferromagnetism, especially in III-V compounds is still controversial. Many questions and open issues are under…