Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2007-08-02
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.117205
The alpha-beta magneto-structural phase transition in MnAs/GaAs(111) epilayers is investigated by elastic neutron scattering. The in-plane parameter of MnAs remains almost constant with temperature from 100 K to 420 K, following the thermal evolution of the GaAs substrate. This induces a temperature dependent biaxial strain that is responsible for an alpha-beta phase coexistence and, more important, for the stabilization of the ferromagnetic alpha-phase at higher temperature than in bulk. We explain the premature appearance of the beta-phase at 275 K and the persistence of the ferromagnetic alpha-phase up to 350 K with thermodynamical arguments based on the MnAs phase diagram. It results that the biaxial strain in the hexagonal plane is the key parameter to extend the ferromagnetic phase well over room temperature.
Bourges Ph.
Eddrief M.
Etgens V. H.
Garcia Valerie
Maccherozzi F.
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