학술논문

Photo-Enhanced Room Temperature Magnetism and Two-Photon Effects in Manganese-Implanted Gallium Nitride p-i-n Structures
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics IEEE J. Quantum Electron. Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of. 60(1):1-12 Feb, 2024
Subject
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photonics and Electrooptics
Manganese
Implants
Epitaxial growth
Photonics
Magnetization
Gallium nitride
Magnetic semiconductors
Transducers
photogeneration
gallium nitride
ion implantation
semiconductor defects
electromagnetic induced transparency
optical transducer
Language
ISSN
0018-9197
1558-1713
Abstract
The insertion of manganese into GaN-based p-i-n epitaxial structures allows for a ferromagnetic phase to occur at room temperature that can be photo-enhanced and retained for >8 hours. GaN p-i-n LED structures are implanted with manganese to form a ferromagnetic phase and illuminated with resonant photons across the GaN bandgap. The magnetization after illumination is found to increase by $0.2~\mu _{B}$ /Mn atom. Subsequent illumination below the GaN:Mn bandgap is found to remove the photo-enhancement of magnetism and fully demagnetize the material. The optically-driven process confirms that photon absorption drives hole-media induced ferromagnetic changes to the top layer in GaN:Mn structures. A modified p-i-n structure is designed that situates a two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) beneath the magnetic layer for improvement of the hole injection effect. The mid-gap state formed by the implanted manganese in GaN:Mn is simulated for two-photon electromagnetic induced transparency that can control the absorption of the top layer and moderate the hole injection. The design of GaN:Mn p-i-n structures is explored for spin-photon mapping of states for long-term storage in memory systems.