DFT calculations of magnetic anisotropy energy of Ge(1-x)Mn(x)Te ferromagnetic semiconductor.

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations of the energy of magnetic anisotropy for diluted ferromagnetic semiconductor Ge(1-x)Mn(x)Te were performed using OpenMX package with fully relativistic pseudopotentials. The influence of hole concentration and magnetic ion neighbourhood on magnetic anisotropy energy is presented. Analysis of microscopic mechanism of magnetic anisotropy is provided, in particular the role of spin-orbit coupling, spin polarization and spatial changes of electron density are discussed.

The influence of microscopic disorder on electron paramagnetic resonance spectra of Eu(2+) ions in Pb(1-x)Ge(x)Te.

In mixed crystals, because of the different ionic radii of cations or anions and the randomness in the placement of ions of different kinds, the crystal lattice is locally deformed. Such local deformations have significant influence on the ground state splitting of magnetic ions. Because this ground state splitting is responsible for the position of the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) lines, microscopic disorder is one of the factors which lead to the broadening of the lines, and eventually to their disappearance.

The magnetic contribution to the specific heat of Pb(1-x)Gd(x)Te.

The temperature dependence of the magnetic specific heat of the semimagnetic semiconductor Pb(1-x)Gd(x)Te for x = 0.033 and 0.054, over the temperature range from 0.

Spin filtering in a hybrid ferromagnetic-semiconductor microstructure.

We fabricated a hybrid structure in which cobalt and permalloy micromagnets produce a local in-plane spin-dependent potential barrier for high-mobility electrons at the GaAs/AlGaAs interface. Spin effects are observed in ballistic transport in the range of tens of mT of the external field and are attributed to switching between Zeeman and Stern-Gerlach modes--the former dominating at low electron densities.