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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 72, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.165204
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [GR/S81407/01] Funding Source: researchfish
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We report on a comprehensive combined experimental and theoretical study of Curie temperature trends in (Ga,Mn)As ferromagnetic semiconductors. Broad agreement between theoretical expectations and measured data allows us to conclude that T-c in high-quality metallic samples increases linearly with the number of uncompensated local moments on Mn-Ga acceptors, with no sign of saturation. Room temperature ferromagnetism is expected for a 10% concentration of these local moments. Our magnetotransport and magnetization data are consistent with the picture in which Mn impurities incorporated during growth at interstitial Mn-I positions act as double-donors and compensate neighboring Mn-Ga local moments because of strong near-neighbor Mn-Ga-Mn-I antiferromagnetic coupling. These defects can be efficiently removed by post-growth annealing. Our analysis suggests that there is no fundamental obstacle to substitutional Mn-Ga doping in high-quality materials beyond our current maximum level of 6.8%, although this achievement will require further advances in growth condition control. Modest charge compensation does not limit the maximum Curie temperature possible in ferromagnetic semiconductors based on (Ga,Mn)As.
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