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  • 标题:Room-temperature local ferromagnetism and its nanoscale expansion in the ferromagnetic semiconductor Ge1–xFex
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  • 作者:Yuki K. Wakabayashi ; Shoya Sakamoto ; Yuki-haru Takeda
  • 期刊名称:Scientific Reports
  • 电子版ISSN:2045-2322
  • 出版年度:2016
  • 卷号:6
  • 期号:1
  • DOI:10.1038/srep23295
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Springer Nature
  • 摘要:We investigate the local electronic structure and magnetic properties of the group-IV-based ferromagnetic semiconductor, Ge(1-x)Fex (GeFe), using soft X-ray magnetic circular dichroism. Our results show that the doped Fe 3d electrons are strongly hybridized with the Ge 4p states, and have a large orbital magnetic moment relative to the spin magnetic moment; i.e., morb/mspin ≈ 0.1. We find that nanoscale local ferromagnetic regions, which are formed through ferromagnetic exchange interactions in the high-Fe-content regions of the GeFe films, exist even at room temperature, well above the Curie temperature of 20-100 K. We observe the intriguing nanoscale expansion of the local ferromagnetic regions with decreasing temperature, followed by a transition of the entire film into a ferromagnetic state at the Curie temperature.
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