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After decades of research, the low Curie temperature of ferromagnetic semiconductors remains the key problem in the development of magnetic semiconductor spintronic technologies. Removing this roadblock might require a change of the fields basic materials paradigm by looking beyond ferromagnets. Recent studies of relativistic magnetic and magnetotransport anisotropy effects, which in principle are equally well present in materials with ferromagnetically and antiferromagnetically ordered spins, have inspired our search for antiferromagnetic semiconductors suitable for high-temperature spintronics. Since these are not found among the magnetic counterparts of common III-V or II-VI semi- conductors, we turn the attention in this paper to high N eel temperature I-II-V magnetic compounds whose electronic structure has not been previously identified. Our combined experimental and theoretical work on LiMnAs provides basic prerequisite for the systematic research of this class of materials by demonstrating the feasibility to grow single crystals of group-I alkali metal compounds by molecular beam epitaxy, by demonstrating the semiconducting band structure of the I-Mn-Vs, and by analyzing their spin-orbit coupling characteristics favorable for spintronics.
A systematic study of hole compensation effect on magnetic properties, which is controlled by defect compensation through ion irradiation, in (Ga,Mn)As, (In,Mn)As and (Ga,Mn)P is presented in this work. In all materials, both Curie temperature and ma
We perform a theoretical study, using {it ab initio} total energy density-functional calculations, of the effects of disorder on the $Mn-Mn$ exchange interactions for $Ga_{1-x}Mn_xAs$ diluted semiconductors. For a 128 atoms supercell, we consider a v
The attainability of modification of the apparent magnetic anisotropy in (III,Mn)V ferromagnetic semiconductors is probed by means of the finite-elements-based modelling. The most representative case of (Ga,Mn)As and its in-plane uniaxial anisotropy
The element-specific technique of x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) is used to directly determine the magnitude and character of the valence band orbital magnetic moments in (III,Mn)As ferromagnetic semiconductors. A distinct dichroism is obse
We report on the determination of micromagnetic parameters of epilayers of the ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As, which has easy axis in the sample plane, and (Ga,Mn)(As,P) which has easy axis perpendicular to the sample plane. We use an optical