Hard X-ray Photoelectron Momentum Microscopy and Kikuchi Diffraction on (In,Ga,Mn)As Thin Films
arXiv:2010.12359
Abstract
Recent advances in the brilliance of hard-X-ray beamlines and photoelectron momentum microscopy facilitate bulk valence-band mapping and core-level-resolved hard-X-ray photoelectron diffraction (hXPD) for structural analysis in the same setup. High-quality MBE-grown (In,Ga,Mn)As films represent an ideal testing ground, because of the non-centrosymmetric GaAs crystal structure itself and In and Mn doping concentrations of few percent. Here we present results of k-mapping and hXPD for the title compound with 3% In and 2.5 or 5.6% Mn using hard X-ray photons (3 to 5 keV) at beamline P22 at PETRA III (DESY, Hamburg). Numerical processing (difference or ratio images) emphasizes subtle differences of hXPD patterns like the fingerprint-like hXPD-signatures of As and Ga sites. XPD calculations using the Bloch-wave method show a one-to-one correspondence with the measurements. The hXPD results reveal a predominant Ga substitutional site for Mn. Valence band mapping shows that the Fermi energy lies within the valence band and decreases as the Mn concentration increases. The results support the p-d Zener model of ferromagnetism in the title compound. In addition to the shift of the Fermi energy, the band splitting increases with increasing Mn content, which we attribute to an increase of many-body correlations with increasing metallicity of the sample.
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