Effect of annealing on the depth profile of hole concentration in (Ga,Mn)As

Details Effect of annealing on the depth profile of hole concentration in (Ga,Mn)As Effect of annealing on the depth profile of hole concentration in (Ga,Mn)As

2005-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0503595v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

8 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.71.205213

The effect of annealing at 250 C on the carrier depth profile, Mn distribution, electrical conductivity, and Curie temperature of (Ga,Mn)As layers with thicknesses > 200 nm, grown by molecular-beam epitaxy at low temperatures, is studied by a variety of analytical methods. The vertical gradient in hole concentration, revealed by electrochemical capacitance-voltage profiling, is shown to play a key role in the understanding of conductivity and magnetization data. The gradient, basically already present in as-grown samples, is strongly influenced by post-growth annealing. From secondary ion mass spectroscopy it can be concluded that, at least in thick layers, the change in carrier depth profile and thus in conductivity is not primarily due to out-diffusion of Mn interstitials during annealing. Two alternative possible models are discussed.

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