2001/11/16 by S. Sanvito, Stefano Sanvito, Gerhard Theurich +6 · 1 citation
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices #Semiconductor materials and interfaces #ZnO doping and properties #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0111300
Invited article for Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetic Materials
arxiv created 2001/11/16 · openalex publication_date 2001/11/16 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this paper we review the latest achievements of density functional theory in understanding the physics of diluted magnetic semiconductors. We focus on transition metal doped III-V semiconductors, which show spontaneous ferromagnetic order at relatively high temperature and good structural compatibility with existing III-V devices. We show that density functional theory is a very powerful tool for i) studying the effects of local doping defects and disorder on the magnetic properties of these materials, ii) predicting properties of new materials and iii) providing parameters, often not accessible from experiments, for use in model Hamiltonian calculations. Such studies are facilitated by recent advances in numerical implementations of density functional theory, which make the study of systems with a very large number of atoms possible.