High temperature ferromagnetism in GaAs-based heterostructures with Mn delta doping

Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Jul 1;95(1):017201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.017201. Epub 2005 Jun 28.

Abstract

We show that suitably designed magnetic semiconductor heterostructures consisting of Mn delta (delta)-doped GaAs and p-type AlGaAs layers, in which the locally high concentration of magnetic moments of Mn atoms are controllably overlapped with the two-dimensional hole gas wave function, realized remarkably high ferromagnetic transition temperatures (T(C)). A significant reduction of compensative Mn interstitials by varying the growth sequence of the structures followed by low-temperature annealing led to high T(C) up to 250 K. The heterostructure with high T(C) exhibited peculiar anomalous Hall effect behavior, whose sign depends on temperature.