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Register a new userImpurity bands and the character of the electronic states in ferromagnetic GaMnAs layers
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Marco Aurelio Boselli
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2008
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Physics
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English
Authors
E. Dias Cabral
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The interplay between disorder and spin polarization in a GaMnAs thin layer results into spin-polarized impurity hole bands. A figure of merit is defined to label the hole state as being extended or localized. The calculation leads to a phase diagram determining the metallic or non-metallic character of the sample. It is shown that samples with the highest figures of merit have a ratio between the extended hole density and the Mn concentration near 0.2, in agreement with the ratio of 0.1-0.25 known to occur among samples produced with the highest Curie temperatures. Both the non-metal-to-metal and the metal-to-non-metal transitions experimentally observed in the ferromagnetic regime are obtained, as the Mn concentration increases. An explanation is given for the occurrence of a maximal Curie temperature in ferromagnetic GaMnAs samples.
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Formation of MnAs quantum dots in a regular ring-like distribution has been found on MBE-grown (GaMn)As surfaces after low-temperature annealing under As capping. The Mn was supplied by out-diffusing Mn interstitials from (GaMn)As. With 5 at% substitutional Mn the quantum dots appeared for (GaMn)As layers thicker than 500 A. For thinner layers the Mn-rich surfaces, presumably monolayer thick MnAs, are smooth and well-ordered (1x2), and are well suited for continued epitaxial growth.
Ultrafast two-color pump-probe measurements, involving coherent acoustic phonon (CAP) waves, have provided information simultaneously on the mechanical properties and on the electronic structure of ferromagnetic GaMnAs. The elastic constant C11 of Ga1-xMnxAs (0.03<x<0.07) are observed to be systematically smaller than those of GaAs. Both C11 and Vs of GaMnAs are found to increase with temperature (78 K<T<295 K), again in contrast to the opposite behavior in GaAs. In addition, the fundamental bandgap (at E0 critical point) of Ga1-xMnxAs is found to shift slightly to higher energies with Mn concentration.
The resistivity, temperature, and magnetic field dependence of the anomalous Hall effect in a series of metallic Ga1-xMnxAs thin films with 0.015=<x=<0.08 is presented. A quadratic dependence of the anomalous Hall resistance on the resistivity is observed, with a magnitude which is in agreement with Berry phase theories of the anomalous Hall effect in dilute magnetic semiconductors.
We consider the electronic properties of ferromagnetic bulk GaMnAs at zero temperature using two realistic tight-binding models, one due to Tang and Flatte and one due to Masek. In particular, we study the density of states, the Fermi energy, the inverse participation ratio, and the optical conductivity with varying impurity concentration x=0.01-0.15. The results are very sensitive to the assumptions made for the on-site and hopping matrix elements of the Mn impurities. For low concentrations, x<0.02, Maseks model shows only small deviations from the case of p-doped GaAs with increased number of holes while within Tang and Flattes model an impurity-band forms. For higher concentrations x, Maseks model shows minor quantitative changes in the properties we studied while the results of the Tang and Flatte model exhibit qualitative changes including strong localization of eigenstates with energies close to the band edge. These differences between the two approaches are in particular visible in the optical conductivity, where Maseks model shows a Drude peak at zero frequency while no such peak is observed in Tang and Flattes model. Interestingly, although the two models differ qualitatively the calculated effective optical masses of both models are similar within the range of 0.4-1.0 of the free electron mass.
We provide experimental evidence that the upper limit of ~110 K commonly observed for the Curie temperature T_C of Ga(1-x)Mn(x)As is caused by the Fermi-level-induced hole saturation. Ion channeling, electrical and magnetization measurements on a series of Ga(1-x-y)Mn(x)Be(y)As layers show a dramatic increase of the concentration of Mn interstitials accompanied by a reduction of T_C with increasing Be concentration, while the free hole concentration remains relatively constant at ~5x10^20 cm^-3. These results indicate that the concentrations of free holes and ferromagnetically active Mn spins are governed by the position of the Fermi level, which controls the formation energy of compensating interstitial Mn donors.
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