The book deals with diluted magnetic semiconductors, a class of materials important to the emerging field of spintronics. In these materials semiconducting properties, both transport and optical, are influenced by the presence of magnetic ions. It concentrates on basic physical mechanisms (e.g. carrier-ion and ion-ion interactions) and resulting phenomena (e.g. magnetic polaron formation and spin relaxation). Introduction to the Physics of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors is addressed to graduate-level and doctoral students and young researchers entering the field. The authors have been actively involved in the creation of this branch of semiconductor physics.
Author(s): Jan A. Gaj, Jacek Kossut (auth.), Jan A. Gaj, Jacek Kossut (eds.)
Series: Springer Series in Materials Science 144
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 469
Tags: Condensed Matter Physics; Optical and Electronic Materials; Magnetism, Magnetic Materials; Engineering, general
Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Basic Consequences of sp – d and d – d Interactions in DMS....Pages 1-36
Optical Spectroscopy of Wide-Gap Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors....Pages 37-63
Exchange Interaction Between Carriers and Magnetic Ions in Quantum Size Heterostructures....Pages 65-101
Band-Offset Engineering in Magnetic/Non-Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Structures....Pages 103-160
Diluted Magnetic Quantum Dots....Pages 161-190
Magnetic Ion–Carrier Interactions in Quantum Dots....Pages 191-219
Magnetic Polarons....Pages 221-262
Spin and Energy Transfer Between Carriers, Magnetic Ions, and Lattice....Pages 263-303
Coherent Spin Dynamics of Carriers and Magnetic Ions in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors....Pages 305-334
Spectroscopy of Spin-Polarized 2D Carrier Gas, Spin-Resolved Interactions....Pages 335-381
Quantum Transport in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors....Pages 383-418
Neutron Scattering Studies of Interlayer Magnetic Coupling....Pages 419-463
Back Matter....Pages 465-469
