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Volume 118, Number 1, April 2017
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Article Number | 17003 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/118/17003 | |
Published online | 31 May 2017 |
Magnetic properties of (Ga,Mn)As (110) epitaxial films
State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences - P. O. Box 912, Beijing 100083, China
(a) allen@semi.ac.cn
(b) jhzhao@red.semi.ac.cn
Received: 14 December 2016
Accepted: 15 May 2017
Magnetic properties of (Ga,Mn)As films epitaxied on GaAs (110) substrates have been investigated. Both magnetic and magnetotransport measurements indicate dominant in-plane magnetic anisotropies for as-grown and annealed samples. Moreover, obvious in-plane spin reorientation transition upon the change of temperature has been observed for the as-grown samples, which disappears after annealing. The above phenomena are shown to be correlated with the competition between the cubic and the uniaxial magnetic anisotropic fields. The relative strengths of these two terms are quantitatively obtained by the planar Hall measurements and can be tuned by annealing. For all the annealed (Ga,Mn)As (110) films, a dominant [−110] uniaxial magnetic easy axis is found and the mechanism is discussed. Our work provides useful information for understanding the origin of magnetic anisotropies in (Ga,Mn)As films.
PACS: 75.50.Pp – Magnetic semiconductors / 81.15.Hi – Molecular, atomic, ion, and chemical beam epitaxy
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