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Magnetic anisotropy in (Ga,Mn)As: Influence of epitaxial strain and hole concentration
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Glunk, M. Daeubler, J. Dreher, Lukas Schwaiger, Sonja Schoch, W. Sauer, Rolf Limmer, W. Brandlmaier, Andreas Goennenwein, Sebastian T. B. Bihler, C. Brandt, M. S. |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | We present a systematic study on the influence of epitaxial strain and hole concentration on the magnetic anisotropy in (Ga,Mn)As at 4.2 K. The strain was gradually varied over a wide range from tensile to compressive by growing a series of (Ga,Mn)As layers with 5% Mn on relaxed graded (In,Ga)As/GaAs templates with different In concentration. The hole density, the Curie temperature, and the relaxed lattice constant of the as-grown and annealed (Ga,Mn)As layers turned out to be essentially unaffected by the strain. Angle-dependent magnetotransport measurements performed at different magnetic field strengths were used to probe the magnetic anisotropy. The measurements reveal a pronounced linear dependence of the uniaxial out-of-plane anisotropy on both strain and hole density. Whereas the uniaxial and cubic in-plane anisotropies are nearly constant, the cubic out-of-plane anisotropy changes sign when the magnetic easy axis flips from in-plane to out-of-plane. The experimental results for the magnetic anisotropy are quantitatively compared with calculations of the free energy based on a mean-field Zener model. An almost perfect agreement between experiment and theory is found for the uniaxial out-of-plane and cubic in-plane anisotropy parameters of the as-grown samples. In addition, magnetostriction constants are derived from the anisotropy data. |
| Starting Page | 195206 |
| Ending Page | 195206 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.195206 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://arxiv.org/pdf/0904.1565v1.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.79.195206 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |