Origin of ferromagnetic response in diluted magnetic semiconductors and oxides
By T. Dietl. 2007
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This paper reviews the present understanding of the origin of ferromagnetic response that has been detected in a number of diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMSs) and diluted magnetic oxides (DMOs) as well as in some nominally magnetically undoped materials. It is argued that these systems can be grouped into four classes. To the first belong composite materials in which precipitations of a known ferromagnetic, ferrimagnetic or antiferromagnetic compound account for magnetic characteristics at high temperatures. The second class forms alloys showing chemical nanoscale phase separation into the regions with small and large concentrations of the magnetic constituent. Here, high-temperature magnetic properties are determined by the regions with high magnetic ion concentrations, whose crystal structure is imposed by the host. Novel methods enabling a control of this spinodal decomposition and possible functionalities of these systems are described. To the third class belong (Ga, Mn)As, heavily doped p-(Zn, Mn)Te, and related semiconductors. In these solid solutions the theory built on the p–d Zener model of hole-mediated ferromagnetism and on either the Kohn–Luttinger kp theory or the multi-orbital tight-binding approach describes qualitatively, and often quantitatively, thermodynamic, micromagnetic, optical, and transport properties. Moreover, the understanding of these materials has provided a basis for the development of novel methods, enabling magnetization manipulation and switching. Finally, in a number of carrier-doped DMSs and DMOs a competition between long-range ferromagnetic and short-range antiferromagnetic interactions and/or the proximity of the localization boundary lead to an electronic nanoscale phase separation. These materials exhibit characteristics similar to colossal magnetoresistance oxides.
Subfields: Materials Chemistry
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- Dilute ferromagnetic semiconductors: Physics and spintronic structures (2013, background): “These fluctuations, typically accompanied by competing ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions, lead to a static phase separation into regions differing in the magnitude of hole density and, therefore, in the strength of ferromagnetic correlations (Dietl, 2007; Dietl et al., 2000; Sawicki e”
- Spin-dependent phenomena and device concepts explored in (Ga,Mn)As (2013, background): “Sankowski, P., P. Kacman, J. A. Majewski, and T. Dietl, 2007, Phys.”