Spatially resolved inhomogeneous ferromagnetism in (Ga,Mn)as diluted magnetic semiconductors: a microscopic study by muon spin relaxation

Autor: Vyacheslav G, Storchak, Dmitry G, Eshchenko, Elvezio, Morenzoni, Thomas, Prokscha, Andreas, Suter, Xinyu, Liu, Jacek K, Furdyna
Rok vydání: 2008
Zdroj: Physical review letters. 101(2)
ISSN: 0031-9007
Popis: Thin epitaxial films of the diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS) GaMnAs have been studied by low energy muon spin rotation and relaxation (LE-microSR) as well as by transport and magnetization measurement techniques. LE-microSR allows measurements of the distribution of magnetic field on the nanometer scale inaccessible to traditional macroscopic techniques. The spatial inhomogeneity of the magnetic field is resolved: although homogeneous above Tc, below Tc the DMS consists of ferromagnetic and paramagnetic regions of comparable volumes. In the ferromagnetic regions the local field inhomogeneity amounts to 0.03 T.
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