Structural and magnetic evidence of confined strain fields in GaMnAs grown on ordered arrays of zero-dimensional nanostructures

Details Structural and magnetic evidence of confined strain fields in GaMnAs grown on ordered arrays of zero-dimensional nanostructures Structural and magnetic evidence of confined strain fields in GaMnAs grown on ordered arrays of zero-dimensional nanostructures

2010-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/1003.4768v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

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We prepared Ga0.95Mn0.05As films on top of periodic arrays of InAs quantum dots. X-ray diffraction reveals periodically strained films, commensurate to substrate's patterning. The dots produce a tensile strain in GaMnAs while between the dots strain is compressive. Our experiments confirm that the average tensile strain in the film increases with decreasing dots separation. This trend in strain is accompanied by an increase of the out-of-plane magnetization component familiar from the established relation between strain and magnetic anisotropy in GaMnAs films. Our work provides a new route for controlling magneto-crystalline anisotropies in GaMnAs on a nanometer scale.

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