Magnetic Properties of (Ga,Mn)As

• Authors: M. Sawicki
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A review is given of experimental findings and theoretical understanding of micromagnetic properties of zinc-blende ferromagnetic semiconductors, with (Ga,Mn)As taken as a sole example. It is emphasised that the Zener p-d model explains quantitatively the effect of strain on the easy axis direction as well as it predicts correctly the presence of the reorientation transition, observed as a function of hole concentration and temperature. Possible suggestions put forward to explain the existence of in-plane uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy are then quoted.

Keywords

EN

75.50.Pp; 75.30.Gw; 75.70.-i

Discipline

• 75.70.-i: Magnetic properties of thin films, surfaces, and interfaces(for magnetic properties of nanostructures, see 75.75.-c)
• 75.30.Gw: Magnetic anisotropy
• 75.50.Pp: Magnetic semiconductors

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 106
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 119-130

Dates

published

2004-08

received

2004-05-28

Contributors

author

M. Sawicki

• Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.106.119