Nagaev E. Physics of Magnetics Semiconductors 1983

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The book contains a theory of and experimental data on the semiconducting compounds of transition and rare-earth elements. Peculiar to magnetic semiconductors is the extremely strong influence exercised by their magnetic properties on their electrical and optical properties, and vice versa, the conduction electrons can have a significant effect on the magnetic properties. For this reason magnetic semiconductors display a number of unique properties as compared to nonmagnetic semiconductors and magnetic nonsemiconducting materials. For instance, their band-gap is strongly dependent on magnetization, and the type of magnetic ordering in them can be altered by varying charge carrier concentration. New types of carrier states are possible in magnetic semiconductors when the conduction electrons create a region of a normallyunstable phase in the crystal (e.g. the ferromagnetic phase in an antiferromagnet) and then stabilize it by their autolocalization in it