Search Menu
DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Search Scholarly Publications

Title: Structural evolution of dilute magnetic (Sn,Mn)Se films grown by molecular beam epitaxy

Journal Article · · Journal of Applied Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4976206 · OSTI ID:1465328
 [1];  [2];  [2]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [7];  [2];  [2]
  1. Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States). Dept. of Physics. Dept. of Electrical Engineering; UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
  2. Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States). Dept. of Physics
  3. Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility
  4. Univ. Grenoble Alpes (France). Inst. Néel
  5. Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States). Radiation Lab. Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
  6. Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States). Dept. of Physics. Radiation Lab.
  7. Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States). Dept. of Physics
+ Show Author Affiliations

In this paper, we describe the structural evolution of dilute magnetic (Sn,Mn)Se films grown by molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs (111) substrates, as revealed by transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. When the Mn concentration is increased, the lattice of the ternary (Sn,Mn)Se films evolves quasi-coherently from a SnSe2 two-dimensional (2D) crystal structure into a more complex quasi-2D lattice rearrangement, ultimately transforming into the magnetically concentrated antiferromagnetic MnSe 3D rock-salt structure as Mn approaches 50 at. % of this material. Finally, these structural transformations are expected to underlie the evolution of magnetic properties of this ternary system reported earlier in the literature.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); National Science Foundation (NSF) (United States); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)
Grant/Contract Number:
FC02-04ER15533
OSTI ID:
1465328
Journal Information:
Journal of Applied Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Applied Physics Journal Issue: 7 Vol. 121; ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (13)

Ultrathin SnSe 2 Flakes Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition for High-Performance Photodetectors journal November 2015
Characterization of structural defects in SnSe2 thin films grown by molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs (111)B substrates journal November 2016
Optical and electrical properties of SnSe2 and SnSe thin films prepared by spray pyrolysis journal May 2013
Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in Two-Dimensional Materials Beyond Graphene journal March 2013
Electronics and optoelectronics of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides journal November 2012
Control of valley polarization in monolayer MoS2 by optical helicity journal June 2012
Two-dimensional material nanophotonics journal November 2014
Nature of the quantum metal in a two-dimensional crystalline superconductor journal December 2015
Few-layer SnSe 2 transistors with high on/off ratios journal February 2016
Room temperature weak ferromagnetism in Sn 1−x Mn x Se 2 2D films grown by molecular beam epitaxy journal March 2016
MnSe: Rocksalt versus zinc-blende structure journal September 1998
Robust optical emission polarization in MoS 2 monolayers through selective valley excitation journal August 2012
Strong Light-Matter Interactions in Heterostructures of Atomically Thin Films journal May 2013

Cited By (1)

Non-Dirac Chern insulators with large band gaps and spin-polarized edge states journal January 2018

Similar Records

Related Subjects

74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
III-V semiconductors
X-ray diffraction
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
crystal structure
ferromagnetic materials
materials properties
molecular beam epitaxy
thin film growth