Structural and magnetic properties of In1-xMnxSb: Effect of Mn complexes and MnSb nanoprecipitates
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KOCHURA, Alexey, ARONZON, Boris, LISUNOV, Konstantin, LASHKUL, Alexander V., SIDORENKO, Andrey A., DE RENZI, Roberto, MARENKIN, Sergey, ALAM, Mahmudul T., KUZMENKO, Alexander, LÄHDERANTA, Erkki. Structural and magnetic properties of In1-xMnxSb: Effect of Mn complexes and MnSb nanoprecipitates. In: Journal of Applied Physics, 2013, vol. 113, pp. 1-8. ISSN 0021-8979. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4792652
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Journal of Applied Physics
Volumul 113 / 2013 / ISSN 0021-8979 /ISSNe 1089-7550

Structural and magnetic properties of In1-xMnxSb: Effect of Mn complexes and MnSb nanoprecipitates

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4792652

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Kochura Alexey12, Aronzon Boris134, Lisunov Konstantin15, Lashkul Alexander V.1, Sidorenko Andrey A.67, De Renzi Roberto6, Marenkin Sergey8, Alam Mahmudul T.2, Kuzmenko Alexander2, Lähderanta Erkki1
 
1 Lappeenranta University of Technology,
2 Southwest State University,
3 National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow,
4 Institute for Theoretical and Applied Electromagnetics, Russian Academy of Sciences,
5 Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of Moldova,
6 Università di Parma,
7 Vienna University of Technology,
8 Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the RAS, Moscow
 
 
Disponibil în IBN: 7 noiembrie 2023


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Structural and magnetic properties of the group III-V diluted magnetic semiconductor In1-xMnxSb with x = 0.005-0.06, including the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) investigations, are reported. Polycrystalline In1-xMnxSb samples were prepared by direct alloying of indium antimonide, manganese and antimony, followed by a fast cooling of the melt with a rate of 10-12 K/s. According to the X-ray diffraction data, part of Mn is substituted for In, forming the In1-xMnxSb matrix. Atomic force microscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy investigations provide evidence for the presence of microcrystalline MnSb inclusions (precipitates), having a size of ∼100-600 nm, and the fine structure of nanosize grains with a Gaussian distribution around the diameter of ∼24 nm. According to the NMR spectra, the majority of Mn enters the MnSb inclusions. In addition to the single Mn ions, which contribute to the magnetization M (T) only in the low-temperature limit of T < 10-20 K, and MnSb nanoprecipitates responsible for the ferromagnetic (FM) properties of In1-xMnxSb, a superparamagnetic (SP) contribution of atomic-size magnetic Mn complexes (presumably dimers) has been established. The fraction of the MnSb phase, η ∼ 1-4%, as well as the concentration, nsp ∼ (0.8-3.2) × 1019 cm-3, and the magnetic moment of the Mn dimers, μ ∼ 8-9 μB, are determined. The solubility limit of Mn in the InSb matrix, NSL ∼ 1020 cm-3, is estimated. Hysteresis in low (H < 500 Oe) magnetic fields and saturation of the magnetization in high (H > 20 kOe) magnetic fields are observed, indicating a presence of the SP and FM contributions to the dependence of M (H) up to T ∼ 500 K. The hysteresis is characterized by the coercivity field, H c, decreasing between ∼100 and 75 Oe when T is increased from 5 to 510 K. The values of Hc are in reasonable agreement with the effect of the largest MnSb inclusions. The maximum of M (T), measured in the zero-field-cooled and the field-cooled conditions in a weak field of 500 Oe, is observed at T ∼ 510 K and is attributable to the Hopkinson effect. 

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Engineering controlled terms Antimony, atomic force microscopy, hysteresis, indium, Magnetic fields, Magnetic moments, magnetic properties, Magnetic semiconductors, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Precipitation (chemical), saturation magnetization, Scanning tunneling microscopy, Superparamagnetism, X ray diffraction Engineering uncontrolled terms Diluted magnetic semiconductors, Field-cooled conditions, Indium antimonide, Nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR), Structural and magnetic properties, Superparamagnetics, X-ray diffraction data, Zero-field-cooled Engineering main heading Manganese