Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2001-03-06
Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 3271 (2001)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
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Scientific paper
10.1063/1.1370535
We have grown the ferromagnetic semiconductor GaMnAs containing up to 10% Mn by migration enhanced epitaxy at a substrate temperature of 150^oC. The alternate supply of As2 molecules and Ga and Mn atoms made it possible to grow single crystalline GaMnAs layers at very low substrate temperature, at which conventional molecular beam epitaxial growth under excess As supply is not possible due to As condensation. Secondary ion mass spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction measurements confirmed a higher Mn content in the films grown by this method in comparison to the GaMnAs layers grown by low temperature molecular beam epitaxy. The lattice constant of hypothetical zinc-blende structure MnAs is determined to be 5.9 \AA, which deviates somewhat from previously reported values. This deviation is ascribed to growth-condition dependent density of point defects. It is stressed that this effect must be taken into account for any assessment of Mn content from X-ray diffraction data. Magnetization measurements showed an onset of ferromagnetic ordering around 75 K for the GaMnAs layer with 10% Mn. This means that the trend of falling Curie temperatures with increasing Mn concentrations above 5.5% is broken. We tentatively assign this to the variation of the carrier concentration, including contributions from donor and acceptor centers formed by antisite defects and Mn doping, and increased density of magnetically active Mn ions.
- Misiuk Bak J.
Asklund H.
Domagala Jarek Z.
Ilver L.
Kanski Janusz
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