Anomalous Fermi level behavior in GaMnAs at the onset of ferromagnetism

Iriya Muneta, Hiroshi Terada, Shinobu Ohya, Masaaki Tanaka
2013 Applied Physics Letters  
We present the systematic study of the resonant tunneling spectroscopy on a series of ferromagnetic-semiconductor Ga1-xMnxAs with the Mn content x from ~0.01 to 3.2%. The Fermi level of Ga1-xMnxAs exists in the band gap in the whole x region. The Fermi level is closest to the valence band (VB) at x=1.0% corresponding to the onset of ferromagnetism near the metal-insulator transition (MIT), but it moves away from the VB as x increasing or decreasing from 1.0%. This anomalous behavior of the
more » ... level indicates that the ferromagnetism and MIT emerge in the Mn-derived impurity band.
doi:10.1063/1.4816133 fatcat:ydnelmulpfe23c3vygaifkr7c4