Room-temperature ferromagnetism in zincblende CrSb grown by molecular-beam epitaxy

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Zhao, JH [1 ]
Matsukura, F [1 ]
Takamura, K [1 ]
Abe, E [1 ]
Chiba, D [1 ]
Ohno, H [1 ]
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[1] Tohoku Univ, Elect Commun Res Inst, Lab Elect Intelligent Syst, Aoba Ku, Sendai, Miyagi 9808577, Japan
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10.1063/1.1413732
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O59 [应用物理学];
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Thin films of CrSb grown by solid-source molecular-beam epitaxy on GaAs, (Al, Ga)Sb, and GaSb are found to exhibit ferromagnetism. Reflection high-energy electron diffraction and high-resolution cross sectional transmission electron microscopy both indicate that the structure is zincblende. Temperature dependence of remanent magnetization shows that the ferromagnetic transition temperature is beyond 400 K. (C) 2001 American Institute of Physics.
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