Ultra-fast annealing manipulated spinodal nano-decomposition in Mn-implanted Ge
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Liu, Chaoming
Hübner, René
Xie, Yufang
Wang, Mao
Xu, C
Jiang, Zenan
Yuan, Ye

Li, Xingji
Yang, Jianqun
Li, Ling-wei
Weschke, Eugen
Prucnal, Slawomir

Helm, Manfred
Zhou, Shengqiang
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2018-11-30Online Publication Date
2018-11-30Print Publication Date
2019-02-01Permanent link to this record
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In the present work, millisecond-range flash lamp annealing is used to recrystallize Mn-implanted Ge. Through systematic investigations of structural and magnetic properties, we find that the flash lamp annealing produces a phase mixture consisting of spinodally decomposed Mn-rich ferromagnetic clusters within a paramagnetic-like matrix with randomly distributed Mn atoms. Increasing the annealing energy density from 46, via 50, to 56 J/cm2 causes the segregation of Mn atoms into clusters, as proven by transmission electron microscopy analysis and quantitatively confirmed by magnetization measurements. According to X-ray absorption spectroscopy, the dilute Mn ions within Ge are in d5 electronic configuration. This Mn-doped Ge shows paramagnetism, as evidenced by the unsaturated magnetic-field-dependent X-ray magnetic circular dichroism signal. Our study reveals how spinodal decomposition occurs and influences the formation of ferromagnetic Mn-rich Ge-Mn nanoclusters.Citation
Liu C, Hübner R, Xie Y, Wang M, Xu C, et al. (2018) Ultra-fast annealing manipulated spinodal nano-decomposition in Mn-implanted Ge. Nanotechnology. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/aaefb1.Sponsors
Authors acknowledge the ion implantation group at HZDR. This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11775061). The funding of TEM Talos by the German Federal Ministry of Education of Research (BMBF), Grant No. 03SF0451, in the framework of HEMCP is gratefully acknowledged. The author C. L. thanks the financial support by Chinese Scholarship Council (File No. 201706125070).Publisher
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NanotechnologyAdditional Links
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6528/aaefb1ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1088/1361-6528/aaefb1