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It is established that magnesium oxide (a nonmagnetic ionic insulator) exhibits a transition to the state of a magnetic half-metal upon the introduction of nonmagnetic impurities (boron, carbon, or nitrogen) into the crystal lattice. The possibility of obtaining novel magnetic materials for spintronics by doping ionic insulators with nonmagnetic impurities is discussed.
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Original Russian Text © V.V. Bannikov, I.R. Shein, A.L. Ivanovskii, 2007, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2007, Vol. 33, No. 13, pp. 1–8.
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Bannikov, V.V., Shein, I.R. & Ivanovskii, A.L. Novel magnetic half-metallic materials based on ionic insulators doped with nonmagnetic impurities: MgO + B, C, N Systems. Tech. Phys. Lett. 33, 541–544 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785007070012
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