1.
Introduction
1.
Functional (III,Mn)V material requirements
2.
Search for high transition temperatures
3.
Conventional spintronics
4.
Magneto-
semiconducting properties and related new spintronics effects
2.
Origin of ferromagnetism
1.
General remarks
2.
Substitutional Mn impurity in GaAs
1.
p-d
exchange coupling
3.
Other common impurities in (Ga,Mn)As
1.
Interstitial Mn
2.
As antisites
4.
Qualitative picture of ferromagnetism in (Ga,Mn)As and other (III,Mn)V materials
3.
Theoretical approaches
1.
First-principles calculations
2.
Microscopic tight-binding models
3.
k•p
effective Hamiltonian theories
4.
Impurity-band and polaronic models
4.
Structural properties
1.
Impurity formation energies and partial concentrations
2.
Lattice-constant variation
5.
Magnetic properties
1.
Ferromagnetic critical temperature
1.
Mean-field theory in (Ga,Mn)As
2.
Role of collective Mn-moment fluctuations and different III-V hosts
2.
Magnetization
1.
Magnetization of an isolated Mn(
d
5
+hole) complex
2.
Magnetization of (Ga,Mn)As ferromagnets
3.
Micromagnetic parameters
1.
Magnetocrystalline anisotropy
2.
Spin stiffness
3.
Gilbert damping of magnetization precession
4.
Domains and spin-transfer magnetization switching
6.
Magnetotransport
1.
Low-temperature conductivity
2.
Anisotropic magnetoresistance
3.
Anomalous and ordinary Hall effects
4.
Conductivity near and above
T
c
7.
Magneto-optics
1.
Visible magnetic circular dichroism
2.
Infrared absorption
8.
Discussion
1.
Magnetic interactions in systems with coupled local and itinerant moments
2.
Ferromagnetism in the diluted magnetic semiconductor family
9.
Summary
Acknowledgements
References