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Significant suppression of ferromagnetism by hydrostatic pressure in the diluted magnetic semiconductor Sb2-xVxTe3 with x <~ 0.03
Applied Physics Letters (2007)
  • Jeffrey Dyck, John Carroll University
  • T J Mitchell
  • A J Luciana
  • P C Quayle
  • C Drašar
  • P Lošťák
Abstract

The authors report on the hydrostatic pressure dependence of the magnetotransport properties of ferromagnetic Sb2-xVxTe3 single crystals with x=0.02—0.03. Pressure significantly increases the free hole concentration in these compounds. In turn, the Curie temperature is suppressed by roughly 40%, which goes against many models that would predict an increase in Curie temperature with increasing carrier concentration. These results indicate that the ferromagnetism in these materials is carrier mediated and that a full Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida model that takes into account the oscillatory nature of the indirect exchange interaction among localized spins is needed in order to explain the data.

Publication Date
2007
Publisher Statement
© 2007 American Institute of Physics DOI: 10.1063/1.2787881
Citation Information
Jeffrey Dyck, T J Mitchell, A J Luciana, P C Quayle, et al.. "Significant suppression of ferromagnetism by hydrostatic pressure in the diluted magnetic semiconductor Sb2-xVxTe3 with x <~ 0.03" Applied Physics Letters Vol. 91 Iss. 12 (2007)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey_dyck/1/