Description
This book provides an in-depth review of the rapidly developing field of spintronic semiconductors. It covers a broad range of topics, including growth and basic physical properties of diluted magnetic semiconductors based on II-VI, III-V and IV semiconductors, recent developments in theory and experimental techniques and potential device applications; its aim is to provide postgraduate students, researchers and engineers a comprehensive overview of our present knowledge and future perspectives of spintronic semiconductors.
Table of Contents
Computational Materials Design in Semiconductor Nano-Spintronics. Transition Metal Doped ZnO. Spintronics in III-Nitride Based Materials. Electronic Structure and Lattice Site Location of Mn in III-Mn-V Ferromagnetic Semiconductors. Ga1-XMnXP Synthesized by Ion Implantation and Pulsed-Laser Melting. InMnAs Thin Films and Heterostructures. Magnetic Doping of Group-IV Semiconductors. Dynamics of Localized Spins in Non-Magnetic Semiconductors. Zero-Bias Spin Separation. Electrical Spin Injection in Hybrid Ferromagnetic Metal/Semiconductor Structures and Spin-Light Emitting Diodes. Magneto-Optical Sepctroscopy of Spin Injection and Spin Relaxation in Spin Light-Emitting Structures.