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Relation of Curie temperature and conductivity: (Ga,Mn)As alloy as a case study
Experimental investigations of diluted magnetic semiconductors indicate a
strong relation between Curie temperature and conductivity. Both quantities
depend non trivially on the concentration of magnetic impurities, the carrier
density, and the presence of compensating defects. We calculate both Curie
temperature and conductivity of (Ga,Mn)As alloys in a selfconsistent manner
based on the same first principles Hamiltonian in which the presence of
compensating defects is taken into account. The effect of As-antisites and
Mn-interstitials is determined separately and a good agreement between theory
and experiment exists only in the case where the dominating mechanism of is due
to the Mn-interstitials.Comment: The manuscript is accepted for publication in AP
On the origin of temperature dependence of interlayer exchange coupling in metallic trilayers
We study the influence of collective magnetic excitations on the interlayer
exchange coupling (IEC) in metallic multilayers. The results are compared to
other models that explain the temperature dependence of the IEC by mechanisms
within the spacer or at the interfaces of the multilayers. As a main result we
find that the reduction of the IEC with temperature shows practically the same
functional dendence in all models. On the other hand the influence of the
spacer thickness, the magnetic material, and an external field are quite
different. Based on these considerations we propose experiments, that are able
to determine the dominating mechanism that reduces the IEC at finite
temperatures.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures, accepted for PR
Correlated Doping in Semiconductors: The Role of Donors in III-V Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors
We investigate the compositional dependence of the total energy of the mixed
crystals (Ga,Mn)As co-doped with As, Sn, and Zn. Using the ab initio LMTO-CPA
method we find a correlation between the incorporation of acceptors (Mn, Zn)
and donors (Sn, antisite As). In particular, the formation energy of As_Ga is
reduced by approx. 0.1 eV in the presence of Mn, and vice versa. This leads to
the self-compensating behavior of (Ga,Mn)As.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, presented at the XXXI Int. School of
Semiconducting Compounds, Jaszowiec 2002, Polan
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