Toward the beta-FeSi2 p-n homo-junction structure

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Photodegradation of 1,3,5-trichlorobenzene in aqueous surfactant solutions

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Ultrahigh-Field Hole Cyclotron Resonance Absorption in InMnAs Films

We have carried out an ultrahigh-field cyclotron resonance study of p-type In1-xMnxAs films, with Mn composition x ranging from 0% to 2.5%, grown on GaAs by low-temperature molecular-beam epitaxy. Pulsed magnetic fields up to 500 T were used to make cyclotron resonance observable in these low-mobility samples. The clear observation of hole cyclotron resonance is direct evidence of the existence of a large number of itinerant, effective-mass-type holes rather than localized d-like holes. It further suggests that the p-d exchange mechanism is more favorable than the double exchange mechanism in this narrow gap InAs-based dilute magnetic semiconductor. In addition to the fundamental heavy-hole and light-hole cyclotron resonance absorption appearing near the high-magnetic-field quantum limit, we observed many inter-Landau-level absorption bands whose transition probabilities are stronglydependent on the sense of circular polarization of the incident light.Comment: 8 pages, 10 Postscript figure

Coordination and chemical effects on the structural, electronic and magnetic properties in Mn pnictides

Simple structures of MnX binary compounds, namely hexagonal NiAs and zincblende, are studied as a function of the anion (X = Sb, As, P) by means of the all-electron FLAPW method within local spin density and generalized gradient approximations. An accurate analysis of the structural, electronic and magnetic properties reveals that the cubic structure greatly favours the magnetic alignment in these compounds leading to high magnetic moments and nearly half-metallic behaviour for MnSb and MnAs. The effect of the anion chemical species is related to both its size and the possible hybridization with the Mn $d$ states; both contributions are seen to hinder the magnitude of the magnetic moment for small and light anions. Our results are in very good agreement with experiment - where available - and show that the generalized gradient approximation is essential to correctly recover both the equilibrium volume and magnetic moment.Comment: 18 pages and 4 figures, Latex-file, submitted to Phys.Rev.