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Room temperature ferromagnetism of Mn doped InAs by a diffusion treatment

SHAN DONG1,* , FENG ZHU1, GUANDONG YANG1

Affiliation

  1. State Key Laboratory for Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 912, Beijing 100083, China

Abstract

InAs crystal wafer showing ferromagnetism have been successfully synthesized by diffusing Mn into InAs under a high-temperature annealing. The concentration of Mn in crystal is 7.8% calculated from X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern. The sample shows a clear ferromagnetic hysteresis loops at room-temperature, and Curie temperature (TC) may be above 300K. The hole concentration of InAs wafer increases from 2.38×1017 cm-3 to 2.51×1017 cm-3 after Mn is doped into InAs, which may originate from the replacement of In iron by Mn iron. Our first-principle calculations confirm that the ferromagnetic or-dering of p-type InMnAs sample is due to strong p-d exchange interaction and hole-mediated ferromagnetism..

Keywords

Mn-doped InAs, High Curie temperature, Diffusion, First principles calculations.

Citation

SHAN DONG, FENG ZHU, GUANDONG YANG, Room temperature ferromagnetism of Mn doped InAs by a diffusion treatment, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 6, 1-2, January-February 2012, pp.174-177 (2012).

Submitted at: June 26, 2011

Accepted at: Feb. 20, 2012