The future of the spintronic technology requires the development of magnetic semiconductor materials. Most research groups have focused on diluted magnetic semiconductors because of the promising theoretical predictions and initial results. In this work, the current experimental situation of ZnO...

The structural and magnetic properties of electron beam evaporated ultra-thin Fe/Al structures are studied as a function of Fe layer thickness, while keeping the Al layer thickness constant. The grazing incidence X-ray reflectivity measurements carried out on the structures having Fe layer...

We investigate the structure and magneto-transport properties of thin films of the Co<Subscript>2</Subscript>Cr<Subscript>0.6</Subscript>Fe<Subscript>0.4</Su bscript>Al full-Heusler compound, which is predicted to be a half-metal by first-principles theoretical calculations. Thin films are deposited by magnetron sputtering at room temperature on various substrates...<//su></subscript></subscript></subscript>