Low-Dimensional Structures of Diluted Magnetic (Semimagnetic) Semiconductors - a Subjective Review

• Authors: J. Kossut
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A review on selected areas of research on low-dimensional structures consisting of diluted magnetic (semimagnetic) semiconductors is attempted. In the introductory part, after short historical preliminaries, we describe some early ideas and speculations concerning properties of such structures and we confront them with real results obtained in the course of their experimental investigations. Several issues are addressed to but, in view of the richness of the field, the review is by no means not pretending to be an exhaustive one. We begin with early studies of metal-insulator-semiconductor structures and progress to structures grown by molecular beam epitaxy. We discuss, in particular, the idea of a spin superlattice, type-I-to-type-II transition, wave functions mapping, and detailed determination of the profiles of realistic quantum wells. We put special emphasis on digital growth and, specifically, parabolic and half-parabolic quantum wells, use of tunable g-factor in studies of trions, self-assembled quantum dots, spin injection and, finally, on hybrid structures of ferromagnets and diluted magnetic semiconductor structures. The focus of the present paper is on work done in the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, mostly in the Laboratory of Growth and Physics of Low-Dimensional Crystals.

Keywords

EN

78.20.-e; 78.67.-n; 75.70.-i

Discipline

• 75.70.-i: Magnetic properties of thin films, surfaces, and interfaces(for magnetic properties of nanostructures, see 75.75.-c)
• 78.20.-e: Optical properties of bulk materials and thin films(for optical properties related to materials treatment, see 81.40.Tv; for optical materials, see 42.70-a; for optical properties of superconductors, see 74.25.Gz; for optical properties of rocks and minerals, see 91.60.Mk; for optical properties of specific thin films, see 78.66.-w)
• 78.67.-n: Optical properties of low-dimensional, mesoscopic, and nanoscale materials and structures(for magnetic properties of nanostructures, see 75.75.-c; for electronic transport in nanoscale structures, see 73.63.-b; for mechanical properties of nanoscale systems, see 62.25.-g)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2001
• Volume: 100
• Issue: Supplement
• Pages: 111-138

Dates

published

2001-12

received

2001-11-05

Contributors

author

J. Kossut

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

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.100.111