中国物理B ›› 2013, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (2): 27504-027504.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/22/2/027504

• CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES • 上一篇    下一篇

Annealing effect on magnetic anisotropy in ultrathin (Ga,Mn)As

李炎勇, 汪华锋, 曹玉飞, 王开友   

  1. The State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructure, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
  • 收稿日期:2012-09-18 修回日期:2012-10-17 出版日期:2013-01-01 发布日期:2013-01-01
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2011CB922200); the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11174272); and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council-National Natural Science Foundation Joint (Grant Nos. 10911130232/A0402).

Annealing effect on magnetic anisotropy in ultrathin (Ga,Mn)As

Li Yan-Yong (李炎勇), Wang Hua-Feng (汪华锋), Cao Yu-Fei (曹玉飞), Wang Kai-You (王开友)   

  1. The State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructure, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
  • Received:2012-09-18 Revised:2012-10-17 Online:2013-01-01 Published:2013-01-01
  • Contact: Wang Kai-You E-mail:kywang@semi.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2011CB922200); the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11174272); and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council-National Natural Science Foundation Joint (Grant Nos. 10911130232/A0402).

摘要: We investigated the effect of low temperature annealing on magnetic anisotropy in 7-nm ultrathin Ga0.94Mn0.06As devices by measuring the angle-dependent planar Hall resistance (PHR). Obvious hysteresis loops were observed during the magnetization reversal through the clockwise and counterclockwise rotations under low magnetic fields (below 1000 Gs, 1 Gs=10-4 T), which can be explained by competition between Zeeman energy and magnetic anisotropic energy. It is found that the uniaxial anisotropy is dominant in the whole measured ferromagnetic range for both the as-grown ultrathin Ga0.94Mn0.06As and the annealed one. The cubic anisotropy changes more than the uniaxial anisotropy in the measured temperature ranges after annealing. This gives a useful way to tune the magnetic anisotropy of ultrathin (Ga,Mn)As devices.

关键词: magnetic anisotropy, planar Hall resistance, ultrathin (Ga, Mn)As

Abstract: We investigated the effect of low temperature annealing on magnetic anisotropy in 7-nm ultrathin Ga0.94Mn0.06As devices by measuring the angle-dependent planar Hall resistance (PHR). Obvious hysteresis loops were observed during the magnetization reversal through the clockwise and counterclockwise rotations under low magnetic fields (below 1000 Gs, 1 Gs=10-4 T), which can be explained by competition between Zeeman energy and magnetic anisotropic energy. It is found that the uniaxial anisotropy is dominant in the whole measured ferromagnetic range for both the as-grown ultrathin Ga0.94Mn0.06As and the annealed one. The cubic anisotropy changes more than the uniaxial anisotropy in the measured temperature ranges after annealing. This gives a useful way to tune the magnetic anisotropy of ultrathin (Ga,Mn)As devices.

Key words: magnetic anisotropy, planar Hall resistance, ultrathin (Ga,Mn)As

中图分类号:  (Magnetic semiconductors)

  • 75.50.Pp
75.30.Gw (Magnetic anisotropy) 75.30.Hx (Magnetic impurity interactions) 75.47.-m (Magnetotransport phenomena; materials for magnetotransport)