Published April 1, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Growth and characterization of Mn-doped cubic-GaN

  • 1. Nanotechnology Research Institute (NRI) and Research Consortium for Synthetic Nano-Function Materials Project (SYNAF), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology - AIST, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568 (Japan)
  • 2. Department of Crystalline Materials Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603 (Japan)
  • 3. Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573 (Japan)

Description

We report on the growth and characterization of Mn-doped cubic-GaN films. The n-type carriers, which are resulting from the formation of nitrogen vacancies, were intentionally utilized. For a 3% Mn sample with a high carrier density (∼1x102 cm-3), we found substitutional Mn atoms on both the Ga-site and N-site, i.e. (Ga,Mn)N and Ga(N,Mn) exist together. A ferromagnetic behavior was observed in this sample at low temperature (∼5 K), although a 3% Mn semi-insulating sample in which Mn atoms substitute only the Ga-sites in the cubic-GaN lattice showed paramagnetism even at low temperature. The structural and magnetic properties of the relatively high Mn composition (≥5%) samples were found to be governed by precipitate clusters of antiferromagnetic GaMn3N and ferromagnetic Mn4N

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physb.2005.12.166;
PII
S0921-4526(05)01554-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
376-377
Journal Page Range
p. 658-662
ISSN
0921-4526
CODEN
PHYBE3

Conference

Title
23. international conference on defects in semiconductors
Dates
24-29 Jul 2005
Place
Awaji Island (Japan)

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