Element- and momentum-resolved electronic structure of the dilute magnetic semiconductor manganese doped gallium arsenide

Nemsak, Slavomir; Gehlmann, Mathias; Kuo, Cheng-Tai; Lin, Shih-Chieh; Schlüter, Christoph; Mlynczak, Ewa; Lee, Tien-Lin; Plucinski, Lukasz; Ebert, Hubert; Marco, Igor di; Minar, Jan; Schneider, Claus M. und Fadley, Charles S. (2018): Element- and momentum-resolved electronic structure of the dilute magnetic semiconductor manganese doped gallium arsenide. In: Nature Communications, Bd. 9, 3306

Abstract

The dilute magnetic semiconductors have promise in spin-based electronics applications due to their potential for ferromagnetic order at room temperature, and various unique switching and spin-dependent conductivity properties. However, the precise mechanism by which the transition-metal doping produces ferromagnetism has been controversial. Here we have studied a dilute magnetic semiconductor (5% manganese-doped gallium arsenide) with Bragg-reflection standing-wave hard X-ray angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, and resolved its electronic structure into element-and momentum-resolved components. The measured valence band intensities have been projected into element-resolved components using analogous energy scans of Ga 3d, Mn 2p, and As 3d core levels, with results in excellent agreement with element-projected Bloch spectral functions and clarification of the electronic structure of this prototypical material. This technique should be broadly applicable to other multi-element materials.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Chemie und Pharmazie > Department Chemie
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 540 Chemie
• ISSN: 2041-1723
• Sprache: Englisch