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Spatially homogeneous ferromagnetism of (Ga, Mn)As.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Dunsiger, Sarah Ruth Carlo, Jeremy P. Goko, Tatsuo Nieuwenhuys, Gerard Prokscha, Thomas Suter, Andreas Morenzoni, Elvezio Chiba, Daichi Nishitani, Y. Tanikawa, Takehiro Matsukura, Fumihiro Ohno, Hideo Ohe, Jun-Ichiro Maekawa, Sadamichi Uemura, Yasutomo J. |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Mn-doped GaAs is a ferromagnetic semiconductor, widely studied because of its possible application for spin-sensitive 'spintronics' devices. The material also attracts great interest in fundamental research regarding its evolution from a paramagnetic insulator to a ferromagnetic metal. The high sensitivity of its physical properties to preparation conditions and heat treatments and the strong doping and temperature dependencies of the magnetic anisotropy have generated a view in the research community that ferromagnetism in (Ga, Mn)As may be associated with unavoidable and intrinsic strong spatial inhomogeneity. Muon spin relaxation (muSR) probes magnetism, yielding unique information about the volume fraction of regions having static magnetic order, as well as the size and distribution of the ordered moments. By combining low-energy muSR, conductivity and a.c. and d.c. magnetization results obtained on high-quality thin-film specimens, we demonstrate here that (Ga, Mn)As shows a sharp onset of ferromagnetic order, developing homogeneously in the full volume fraction, in both insulating and metallic films. Smooth evolution of the ordered moment size across the insulator-metal phase boundary indicates strong ferromagnetic coupling between Mn moments that exists before the emergence of fully itinerant hole carriers. |
| Starting Page | 299 |
| Ending Page | 303 |
| Page Count | 5 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1038/nmat2715 |
| PubMed reference number | 20305642 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 9 |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/view/accepted/?id=af9eecf0-33a3-485c-a7b1-31adcc2f1b50 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2715 |
| Journal | Nature materials |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |