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Room-temperature Magnetotransport in Degenerately Doped GaAs:(Mn,Be) by Virtue of the Embedded Ferromagnetic Clusters

Journal of Magnetics, Volume 10, Number 3, 30 Sep 2005, Pages 103-107
Fu-Cheng Yu(Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University), Do-Jin Kim* (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University), Hyo-Jin Kim(Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University), Young-Eon Ihm(Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University)
Abstract
Magnetotransport is a prerequisite to realization of electronic operation of spintronic devices and it would be more useful if realized at room temperature. The effects of Be codoping on GaMnAs on magnetotransport were investigated. Mn flux was varied for growth of precipitated GaMnAs layers under a Be flux for degenerate doping via low-temperature molecular beam epitaxy. Magnetotransport as well as ferromagnetism at room temperature were realized in the precipitated GaAs:(Mn,Be) layers. Codoping of Be was shown to promote formation of MnGa clusters, and annealing process further stabilized the cluster phases. The room-temperature magnetic properties of the layers originate from the ferromagnetic clusters of MnGa and MnAs embedded in GaAs. The degenerately doped metallic GaAs matrix allowed the visualization of the magnetotransport through anomalous Hall effect.
Keywords: GaMnAs; Be codoping; Cluster
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