Nucleation at the phase transition near 40~${}^{\circ }$C in MnAs nanodisks

B Jenichen, Y Takagaki, K H Ploog +3

The phase transition near 40~${}^{\circ }$C of both as-grown thin epitaxial MnAs films prepared by molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs(001) and nanometer-scale disks fabricated from the s…