Magneto-optical and magnetotransport properties of heavily Mn-doped GaMnAs

TL;DR

This study investigates the magneto-optical and magnetotransport properties of heavily Mn-doped GaMnAs thin films, revealing intrinsic ferromagnetic behavior with high transition temperatures achieved through specific growth techniques.

Contribution

It demonstrates the successful synthesis of heavily Mn-doped GaMnAs films with intrinsic ferromagnetism and high Curie temperatures using low-temperature growth and thin-film strategies.

Findings

High ferromagnetic transition temperature up to 170 K.

Intrinsic ferromagnetic semiconductor behavior confirmed.

Effective suppression of MnAs clustering during growth.

Abstract

We have studied the magneto-optical and magnetotrasnport properties of GaMnAs thin films with high Mn concentrations (x= 12.2 - 21.3%) grown by molecular-beam epitaxy. These heavily Mn-doped GaMnAs films were formed by decreasing the growth temperature to as low as 150-190 degree C and by reducing the film thickness to 10 nm in order to prevent precipitation of hexagonal MnAs clusters. Magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) and anomalous Hall effect measurements indicate that these GaMnAs films have the nature of intrinsic ferromagnetic semiconductors with high ferromagnetic transition temperature up to 170 K.