Vol.:(0123456789) Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics (2020) 31: 10941 https://doi. org/10.1007/s10854-020-03240-x RETRACTED ARTICLE: Synthesis and characterization of Mn‑doped CdS‑diluted magnetic semiconductor nanoparticles AA Gadalla1· AN Aboelkhir1· MG Mahesha2· Ashok Rao2 Received: 20 January 2020/Accepted: 10 March 2020/Published online: 29 March 2020© Springer Science+ Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article [1] has been retracted at the request of the authors. After publication, the authors realized that they accidentally submitted an early draft of their previously pub-lished paper [2]. As this article reports previously published results, this article is redundant. All authors agree to this Retraction. The online version of this article contains the full text of the retracted article as electronic supplementary material.[1] Gadalla, AA, Aboelkhir, AN …