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Surface Relaxation Effect on the Magnetism of Fe Overlayer on Cr (001)

  • Kim, I.G.;Lee, J.I.;Jang, Y.R.;Hong, C.S
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.9-13
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    • 1996
  • The effects of surface relaxation on surface and interface magnetism in Fe/Cr (001) are investigated using the highly precise all-electron total-energy full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method. The Fe-Cr interlayer spacing is deter-mined by total-energy calculation and it is found to be relaxed downward by 18%. For the relaxed system, the magnetic moment of surface Fe is highly suppressed to be $1.72\mu_B$compared to the unrelaxed case ($2.39\mu_B$). This reduction of magnetic moment is considered as a result of the enhanced hybridization between Fe-d and Cr-d states, which can be seen from the calculated density of states. This work suggests the importance of effect of relaxation to the surface and interface magnetism in Fe/Cr system.

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Magneto-optical and optical properties of Fe-Au alloy films in a wide composition range

  • Hyun, Y.H.;Kim, C.O.;Lee, Y.P.;Kudryavtsev, Y.V.;Gontarz, R.;Kim, K.W.
    • Journal of Korean Vacuum Science & Technology
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.43-46
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    • 2001
  • Fe-Au alloys are characterized by the complete solubility, and exhibit an fcc-bcc structural transformation at the Fe-rich side. The magneto-optical(equatorial Ken effect : EKE) and optical properties of Fe$\_$1-x/Aux (0 < x < 1) were investigated in the 0.5 - 5.0 eV energy range. The x-ray diffraction study shows the structural fcc-bcc transformation about 80 at. % of Fe. Noticeable changes in the optical properties caused by the fcc-bcc structural transformation was observed. The shape and intensity of the EKE spectra as well as the field dependence of the magneto-optical response were also significantly changed. It is thought that these changes are mainly comes from the induced magnetic moment in Au(and/or the emhanced magnetic moment of Fe). The nature of the prominent structure observed in the UV range of the magneto-optical Ken effect of Au/Fe multilayered films are disscussed in connection with the above results.

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Ferromagnetic Properties in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors (Al,Mn)N grown by PEMBE

  • Ham, Moon-Ho;Myoung, Jae-Min
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.12-15
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    • 2006
  • We present the structural, magnetic, and electrical properties in the (Al,Mn)N films with various Mn concentrations grown by plasma-enhanced molecular beam epitaxy. X-ray diffraction analyses reveal that the (Al,Mn)N films have the wurtzite structure without secondary phases. All (Al,Mn)N films showed the ferromagnetic ordering. Particularly, ($Al_{1-x}Mn_{x}$)N film with x = 0.028 exhibited the highest magnetic moment per Mn atom at room temperature. Since all the films exhibit the insulating characteristics, the origin of ferromagnetism in (Al,Mn)N might be attributed to either indirect exchange interaction caused by virtual electron excitations from Mn acceptor level to the valence band within the samples or a percolation of bound magnetic polarons arisen from exchange interaction of localized carriers with magnetic impurities in a low carrier density regime.

Spin-polarization and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism in GaAs

  • Zohar, S.;Ryan, P.J.;Kim, J.W.;Keavney, D.J.
    • Current Applied Physics
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    • v.18 no.11
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    • pp.1182-1184
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    • 2018
  • The combination of angular spin momentum with electronics is a promising successor to charge-based electronics. The conduction bands in GaAs may become spin-polarized via optical spin pumping, doping with magnetic ions, or induction of a moment with an external magnetic field. We investigated the spin populations in GaAs with x-ray magnetic circular dichroism for each of these three cases. We find strong anti-symmetric lineshapes at the Ga $L_3$ edge indicating conduction band spin splitting, with differences in line width and amplitude depending on the source of spin polarization.

Magnetism of BN Nanotubes with Transition Metal Substitution (전이금속이 치환된 BN 나노튜브의 자성)

  • Jang, Y.R.;Park, Jin-Woo;Yu, B.D.
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.43-46
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    • 2009
  • The magnetic and structural properties of the (8, 0) BN nanotubes with transition metals (TM) of Fe, Co, or Ni substitution for B or N were investigated using a first-principles calculation. It was found that TM substitution makes the cross section being distorted and the bond length TM-B or TM-N being longer than that of the original B-N one. The magnetic moment is larger for the TM substitution for B than one for N, and it is mainly due to the 3d electrons of TM atoms.

First-principles Study on the Half-metallicity and Magnetism of a Full Heusler Alloy, Co2HfSi, in Bulk State and at its (001) Surfaces

  • Jin, Ying-Jiu;Lee, Jae-Il
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.115-119
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    • 2008
  • The authors predicted that $Co_2HfSi$, a $Co_2$-based full Heusler alloy, is being a half-metallic ferromagnet by first-principles calculations using the all electron full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method which adopts the generalized gradient approximation. The integer value of the calculated total magnetic moment of 2.00 ${\mu}_B$ per formula unit and a spin gap of 0.69 eV in spin down state confirmed the half-metallicity of bulk $Co_2HfSi$. For the $Co_2HfSi$(001) surface, we considered two possible surface terminations, namely, Co terminated and HfSi terminated surfaces. It was found that half-metallicity was retained at the HfSi-terminated surface but not at the Co-terminated surface. The magnetic moment of surface Co atoms in the Co-terminated surface was slightly lower than that of Co atoms in deep inner-layers, whereas the magnetic moments of Hf and Si atoms at the HfSi-terminated surface were almost same as those in deep inner-layers.

Half-metallic Ferromagnetism for Mn-doped Chalcopyrite (Al,Ga)As Semiconductor (Chalcopyrite (Al,Ga)As 반도체와 Mn의 반금속 강자성)

  • Kang, B.S.;Song, K.M.
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.49-54
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    • 2020
  • We studied the electronic and magnetic properties for the Mn-doped chalcopyrite (CH) AlAs, GaAs, and AlGaAs2 semiconductor by using the first-principles calculations. The chalcopyrite AlGaP2, AlGaAsP, and AlGaAs2 compounds have a semiconductor characters with a small band-gap. The interaction between Mn-3d and As-4p states at the Fermi level dominate rather than the other states. The ferromagnetic ordering of dopant Mn with high magnetic moment is induced due to the Mn(3d)-As(4p) strong coupling, which is attributed by the partially filled As-4p bands. The holes are mediated with keeping their 3d-electrons, therefore the ferromagnetic state is stabilized by this double-exchange mechanism. We noted that the ferromagnetic state with high magnetic moment is originated from the hybridized As(4p)-Mn(3d)-As(4p) interaction mediated by the holes-carrier.