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Investigation of magnetic properties in Mn incorporated InSb, InP, and GaAs, synthesized through controlled-ambient annealing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

Joel Hollingsworth
Affiliation:
Materials Science Program, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering department, U.C. San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093
Prabhakar Bandaru
Affiliation:
Materials Science Program, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering department, U.C. San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093
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Abstract

Magnetic semiconductors are of interest for emerging spintronic applications, such as the integration of electronic information processing with magnetic data storage. We report on a new approach - furnace annealing under controlled ambients – aimed at increasing Mn incorporation and synthesizing new magnetic semiconductors with Tc greater than/around room temperature. These annealing treatments are hypothesized to reduce the effect of Mn interstitials. We have obtained preliminary SQUID magnetometry results which indicate ferromagnetic Curie temperatures of around 130 K in (In,Mn) Sb and 60 K in (In, Mn)P. X-ray diffraction was used to characterize phase homogeneity.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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