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Tuning the ferromagnetic properties of hydrogenated GaMnAs

Laura Thevenard, Ludovic Largeau, Olivia Mauguin, Aristide Lemaître, Bertrand Theys

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/0504387

Abstract

Hydrogenation and posthydrogenation annealings have been used as a very efficient tool to tune the hole density over a wide range, at fixed magnetic moment concentration, in thin GaMnAs layers. Reduction of the hole density resulted in strong modifications of their ferromagnetic properties. In particular, we observed in magnetotransport experiments the decrease of the Curie temperature, along with modifications of the magnetic anisotropy, a behavior consistent with the mean-field theory.

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