Diluted magnetic semiconductors 1101-4`DMS
The course (2 hours a week) deals with unusual optical and magnetic properties of DMS (Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors), both in their bulk form and in quantum structures. These properties result from ion-carrier and ion-ion interactions, characteristic for this class of semiconductors. Diluted magnetic semiconductors are of fundamental importance for the emerging field of spintronics.
Program:
1. Introduction on magnetism
2. Idea and beginnings,
3. Carrier-ion sp-d interaction and giant magnetooptic effects in bulk crystals
4. Ion-ion d-d interaction and its experimental determination
5. Mean field approximation for quantum structures, interface profiles (spin tracing) , role of magnetic fluctuations
6. Influence of carriers on magnetic ions
7. III-V semimagnetic semconductors
8. Semimagnetic Quantum Dots
9. DMS in microcavities
Description by Jan Gaj, April 2007.
Ammended Andrzej Golnik 2023.
The course is presented every two years. Next course starts in the Spring 2012.
Mode
Self-reading
Course coordinators
Assessment criteria
Exam: oral.
Bibliography
1. J. Kossut , J.A. Gaj (Eds.), Introduction to the Physics of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors, Springer 2010
2. J.A. Gaj, Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors, manuscript available in the library of Faculty of Physics.
3. J.K. Furdyna, J. Kossut (Eds.), Semiconductors and Semimetals, vol. 25. Diluted Magnetic semiconductors, Academic Press 1988.
4. M. Jain (Ed.), Diluted Magnetic semiconductors, World Scientific 1991.
5. N.W. Ashcroft, N.D. Mermin, Fizyka Ciała Stałego / Solid State Physics.
6. H. Ibach, H. Lüth, Fizyka Ciała Stałego / Solid State Physics.
7. T. Dietl, D.D. Awschalom, M. Kaminska, H. Ohno, Spintronics, Academic Press 2008.
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