Semiconductors doped with small amounts of magnetic impurities such as Mn invariably exhibit room-temperature ferromagnetism. But we don't yet understand why.
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* XVIII International Colloquium on Magnetic Films and Surfaces (ICMFS), Madrid, Spain, 22–25 July, 2003
† International Conference on Magnetism (ICM2003) Rome, Italy, 28 July – 1 August, 2003
‡ The 2nd International Conference on Semiconductor Spintronics and Quantum Information Technology (SpinTech II) Brugge, Belgium, 4–6 August, 2003
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Dietl, T. Functional ferromagnets. Nature Mater 2, 646–648 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat989
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