Hole compensation effect in III-Mn-V dilute ferromagnetic semiconductors

Chi Xu, Mao Wang, Ye Yuan, Gerard Larkin, Manfred Helm, Shengqiang Zhou

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Abstract

A systematic study of hole compensation effect on magnetic properties, which is controlled by defect compensation through ion irradiation, in (Ga,Mn)As, (In,Mn)As and (Ga,Mn)P is represented in this work. In all materials, both Curie temperature and magnetization decrease upon increasing the hole compensation, confirming the description of hole mediated ferromagnetism according to the p-d Zener model. The material dependence of Curie temperature and magnetization versus hole compensation reveals that the manipulation of magnetic properties in III-Mn-V dilute ferromagnetic semiconductors by ion irradiation is strongly influenced by the energy level location of the produced defect relative to the band edges in semiconductors.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)355301
JournalJournal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Volume52
Issue number35
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2 2019

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: Support by the Ion Beam Center (IBC) at HZDR is gratefully
acknowledged. The authors thank Professor B L Gallagher,
Dr K W Edmonds, Dr R P Campion and Dr A W Rushforth
(University of Nottingham) for providing (Ga,Mn)As samples. The support from Rafal Jakiela (Polish Academy of Sciences) for SIMS measurement is acknowledged. This work
is funded by the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF-VH-NG-713). The author C Xu thanks
financial support by Chinese Scholarship Council (File No.
201506680062)

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