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Superexchange Interaction and Anisotropic Superexchange (Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya) Interaction (초교환 상호작용과 비등방성 초교환(Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya) 상호작용)

  • Yang, Il-Kyu;Bang, Kil-Hyun;Kim, Bum-Hyun;Min, Byung-Il
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.215-220
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    • 2007
  • The superexchange interaction is introduced to explain antiferromagnetic ordering in transition metal compounds such as MnO and $MnF_2$. The anisotropic superexchange (Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya: DM) interaction can be derived by incorporating the spin-orbit interaction into the superexchange interaction. The anisotropic superexchange DM can account for the weak ferromagnetism observed in transition metal compounds such as ${\alpha}-Fe_2O_3$, $MnCO_3$, $CrF_3$.

Periodicity Dependence of Magnetic Anisotropy and Magnetization of FeCo Heterostructure

  • Kim, Miyoung
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.6-11
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    • 2016
  • The magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) and the saturation magnetization $B_s$ of (110) $Fe_nCo_n$ heterostructures with n = 1, 2, and 3 are investigated in first-principles within the density functional theory by using the precise full-potential linearized augmented plane wave (FLAPW) method. We compare the results employing two different exchange correlation potentials, that is, the local density approximation (LDA) and the generalized gradient approximation (GGA), and include the spin-orbit coupling interaction of the valence states in the second variational way. The MAE is found to be enhanced significantly compared to those of bulk Fe and Co and the magnetic easy axis is in-plane in agreement with experiment. Also the MAE exhibits the in-plane angle dependence with a two-fold anisotropy showing that the $[1{\overline{I}}0]$ direction is the most favored spin direction. We found that as the periodicity increases, (i) the saturation magnetization $B_s$ decreases due to the reduced magnetic moment of Fe far from the interface, (ii) the strength of in-plane preference of spin direction increases yielding enhancement of MAE, and (iii) the volume anisotropy coefficient decreases because the volume increase outdo the MAE enhancement.

Spin-FET를 위한 InP 및 InAs/AlSb기반의 2DEG HEMT 소자의 전/자기적 특성과 GaAs기판에 성장된 InSb의 Doping 평가

  • Sin, Sang-Hun;Song, Jin-Dong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2013.02a
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    • pp.476-477
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    • 2013
  • 반도체의 성능은 최근 10년 사이에 급격하게 발전했고 아날로그 및 디지털 회로 소자들에 있어 저전력/고속 특성 요구가 커지고 있다 [1]. 상온에서 30,000 $cm^2$/Vs 이상의 전자 이동도를 가지며 큰 conduction band offset을 갖는 InAs/AlSb 2차원전자가스(2DEG) 소자는 Spinorbit-interaction의 값이 매우 커서 SPIN-FET 소자로 크게 주목받고 있다 [2]. 본 발표자들은 GaAs 기판위에 성장한 InAs 2DEG HEMT 소자의 전/자기적인 특성과 고속반응 물질로 주목 받는 InSb 박막소자의 doping 특성에 따른 전기적/물리적인 특성의 평가에 대해 그 결과를 소개하고자 한다. 격자정합과 Semi-insulating 기판의 부재로 상용화되어 있는 GaAs와 InP 기판위에 물질차이에 따른 고유의 한계 특성을 줄이기 위한 Pseudomorphic이라 불리는 특별한 박막 성장 기법을 적용하여 높은 전자 이동도를 가지며 spin length가 길어 Spin-FET로서 크게 주목받고 있는 InAs 2DEG HEMT 소자를 완성시켰다. 60,000 ($cm^2$/Vs) 이상의 높은 전자 이동도를 갖는 소자의 구현을 목표로 연구를 진행하였으며 1.8 K에서 측정된 Spin-orbit interaction의 값은 6.3e-12 (eVm)이다. InAs/InGaAs/InAlAs 및 InGaAs/InAlAs 구조의 InP 기반의 소자에서 보다 큰 값으로 향후 Spin-FET 응용에 크게 기대하고 있다. 또한, GaAs 기판위에 구현된 InSb 소자는 격자부정합 감소를 위해 InAs 양자점을 사용하여 약 $2.6{\mu}m$ 두께로 구현된 InSb 박막 소자는 상온에서 약 60,400 ($cm^2$/Vs)의 상온 전자이동도를 보였으며 현재 동일 두께에서 세계 최고결과(~50,000 $cm^2$/Vs)에 비해 월등하게 높은 값을 보이고 있다. Hall bar pattern 공정을 거쳐 완성된 소자는 측정 결과 10~20% 이상 향상된 전자 이동도를 보였다. 2e18/$cm^3$ 미만의 p-doping의 경우, 상온에서 n-type 특성을 보이나, 저온에서 p-type으로 변하는 특성을 보였고 n-doping의 경우 5e17/$cm^3$까지는 전자 이동도만 감소하고, doping에 의한 효과는 크게 없었다. 1e18/$cm^3$의 높은 doping을 할 경우 carrier가 증가하는 것을 확인했다. 이상의 측정 결과로 Spin-FET 소자로서 아주 우수하다는 것을 확인할 수 있었고 n-/p- type이 특성을 고려한 high quality InSb 박막소자의 응용을 위한 중요한 정보를 얻을 수 있었다.

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Magnetic Semiconductors Thin Films-Unidirectional Anisotropy

  • Lubecka, M.;Maksymowicz, L.J.;Szymczak, R.;Powroznik, W.
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.33-37
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    • 1999
  • Unidirectional magnetic anisotropy field ($H_an$) was investigated for thin films of $CdCr{2-2x}In_{2X}Se_4 (0$\leq$x$\leq$0.2). This anisotropy originates from the microscopic anisotropic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction which arise from the spin-orbit scattering of the conduction electrons by the nonmagnetic impurities. This interaction maintains the remanent magnetization in the direction of the initial applied field. Then the single easy direction of the magnetization is parallel to the direction of the magnetic field. The anisotropy produced by field cooling is unidirectional I.e. the spins system deeps some memory of the cooling field direction. The chalcogenide spinel of$ CdCr_{2-2x}In){2X}Se_4$belongs to the class of the magnetic semiconductors. The magnetic disordered state is obtained when ferromagnetic structure is diluted by In. Then we have the mixed phase characterised by coexistence the magnetic long range ordering (IFN-infinite ferromagnetic network) and the spin glass order (Fc-finite clusters). The total magnetic anisotropy energy depends on the state of magnetic ordering. In our study we concentrated on the magnetic state with reentrant transition and spin glass state. The polycrystalline $ CdCr_{2-2x}In){2X}Se_4$ thin films were obtained by rf sputtering technique. We applied the ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) and M-H loop techniques for determining the temperature composition dependencies of Han. From the experimental data, we have found that Han decreases almost linearly when temperature is increased and in the low temperature is about three times bigger at SG state with comparison to the state with REE.

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Polarization of the A-Band Emission from RbCl : Pb$^{2+}$

  • Kang, Jun-Gill
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.115-118
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    • 1987
  • The angular dependence of polarization of the A-band emission from RbCl:$Pb^{2+}$ is measured at 13.4 K to determine the symmetry axes of the $Pb^{2+}-v^-_c$ dipoles. The results indicate that these centers posess tetragonal symmetry. This implies that $v^-_c$ is situated in the next-nearest-neighbor (nnn) position to the $Pb^{2+}$ ion. The polarization ratio of the A-band emission measured at various temperatures is found to be independent of the temperature. The temperature independence of polarization confirms that, for the ion, the Jahn-Teller effect reduced by strong spin-orbit interaction does not give rise to thermal depolarization.

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURES AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF HEUSLER COMPOUNDS: XMnSb (X=Ni, Pd, and Pt)

  • Youn, S.J.;Min, B.I.;Jang, Y.R.
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.5 no.5
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    • pp.749-752
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    • 1995
  • Electronic structures of the Heusler compounds, XMnSb (X=Ni, Pd, and Pt) are investigated systematically by using the linearized muffiu-tin orbital (LMTO) band method. LMTO band calculations yield that, by including the spinorbit interactions, the NiMnSb and PtMnSb are half-metallic, while PdMnSb is normal metallic at the experimental lattice constant. The effect of the spin-orbit interaction is substantial in PtMnSb, in contrast to NiMnSb and PdMnSb. The calculated X d and Mn 3d angular momentum projected local density of states's reveal that the hybridization between the Mn 3d X d states increases from X = Pt to Pd and Ni.

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First-principles Study on the Magnetic Properties of Gd doped Bithmuth-Telluride (Gd 도핑된 비스무스 텔루라이드의 자기적 성질에 대한 제일원리 계산 연구)

  • Van Quang, Tran;Kim, Miyoung
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.39-44
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    • 2016
  • Determination of the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of the magnetically doped bismuth-telluride alloys are drawing lots of interest in the fields of the thermoelectric application as well as the research on magnetic interaction and topological insulator. In this study, we performed the first-principles electronic structure calculations within the density functional theory for the Gd doped bismuth-tellurides in order to study its magnetic properties and magnetic phase stability. All-electron FLAPW (full-potential linearized augmented plane-wave) method is employed and the exchange correlation potentials of electrons are treated within the generalized gradient approximation. In order to describe the localized f-electrons of Gd properly, the Hubbard +U term and the spin-orbit coupling of the valence electrons are included in the second variational way. The results show that while the Gd bulk prefers a ferromagnetic phase, the total energy differences between the ferromagnetic and the antiferromagnetic phases of the Gd doped bismuth-telluride alloys are about ~1meV/Gd, indicating that the stable magnetic phase may be changed sensitively depending on the structural change such as defects or strains.

Study on $CuInTe_2$ Single Crystals Growth and Characteristics (II) ($CuInTe_2$ 단결정 성장과 특성연구(II))

  • You S.H.;Hong K.J.;Lee S.Y.;Shin Y.J.;Lee K.K.;Suh S.S.;Kim S.U.;Jeong J.W.;Shin Y.J.;Jeong T.S.;Shin B.K.;Kim T.S.;Moon J.D.
    • Korean Journal of Crystallography
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.48-58
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    • 1997
  • [ $CuInTe_2$ ] synthesised in a horizontal electric furnace was found to be polycrystalline. Single crystals of $CuInTe_2$ were grown with the vertical Bridgman technique. The photoconductivity and photoluminescence of the crystals were measured in the temperature range 20 to 293 K. From the photocurrent peaks measured for the samples both perpendicular and parallel to c-axis, the energy band gaps of the samples were found to be 0.948 eV and 0.952 eV at room temperature respectively. The energy difference of the photocurrent and photoluminescence peaks of the samples both perpendicular and parallel to the c-axis measured at room temperature was a phonon energy, and its values were 22.12 meV and 21.4 meV respectively. The splitting of the valence band due to spin-orbit and crystal field interaction was calculated from the photocurrent spectra of the samples, The ${\Delta}cr\;and\;{\Delta}so$ are 0.046,0.014 eV respectively.

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