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Volume 107, Number 5, September 2014
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Article Number | 57009 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/107/57009 | |
Published online | 08 September 2014 |
Magnetic ordering in Cr-doped Bi2Se3 thin films
1 Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford - Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK
2 Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University - Stanford, CA 94305, USA
3 ISIS, STFC, Rutherford Appleton Lab - Didcot, OX11 0QX, UK
4 IBM Almaden Research Center - 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120, USA
5 Magnetic Spectroscopy Group, Diamond Light Source - Didcot, OX11 0DE, UK
(a) Thorsten.Hesjedal@physics.ox.ac.uk (corresponding
author)
Received: 23 July 2014
Accepted: 22 August 2014
We report the structural and magnetic study of Cr-doped Bi2Se3 thin films using x-ray diffraction (XRD), magnetometry and polarized neutron reflectometry (PNR). Epitaxial layers were grown on c-plane sapphire by molecular beam epitaxy in a two-step process. High-resolution XRD shows the exceptionally high crystalline quality of the doped films with no parasitic phases up to a Cr concentration of 12% (in % of the Bi sites occupied by substitutional Cr). The magnetic moment, measured by SQUID magnetometry, was found to be per Cr ion. The magnetic hysteresis curve shows an open loop with a coercive field of
. The ferromagnetic transition temperature was determined to be
analyzing the magnetization-temperature gradient. PNR shows the film to be homogeneously ferromagnetic with no enhanced magnetism near the surface or interface.
PACS: 75.50.Pp – Magnetic semiconductors / 75.30.Hx – Magnetic impurity interactions / 73.61.Ng – Insulators
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