Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2007-08-16
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Submitted to Physical Review B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.205316
We have used polarized neutron reflectometry to study the structural and magnetic properties of the individual layers in a series of (Al,Be,Ga)As/(Ga,Mn)As/GaAs/(Ga,Mn)As multilayer samples. Structurally, we observe that the samples are virtually identical except for the GaAs spacer thickness (which varies from 3-12 nm), and confirm that the spacers contain little or no Mn. Magnetically, we observe that for the sample with the thickest spacer layer, modulation doping by the(Al,Be,Ga)As results in (Ga,Mn)As layers with very different temperature dependent magnetizations. However, as the spacer layer thickness is reduced, the temperature dependent magnetizations of the top an bottom (Ga,Mn)As layers become progressively more similar - a trend we find to be independent of the crystallographic direction along which spins are magnetized. These results definitively show that (Ga,Mn)As layers can couple across a non-magnetic spacer, and that such coupling depends on spacer thickness.
Borchers Julie A.
Cho Yong Jai
Dobrowolska Malgorzata
Furdyna Jacek K.
Kirby Brian J.
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