Abstract

AbstractMagnetic semiconductors are of interest for emerging spintronic applications, such as the integration of electronic information processing with magnetic data storage. We report on a new approach - furnace annealing under controlled ambients – aimed at increasing Mn incorporation and synthesizing new magnetic semiconductors with Tc greater than/around room temperature. These annealing treatments are hypothesized to reduce the effect of Mn interstitials. We have obtained preliminary SQUID magnetometry results which indicate ferromagnetic Curie temperatures of around 130 K in (In,Mn) Sb and 60 K in (In, Mn)P. X-ray diffraction was used to characterize phase homogeneity.

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