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Manganese (Mn)-doped ZnS nanocrystals (NCs) have been extensively explored for optical applications with the advantages of low toxicity, large Stokes shifts, and enhanced thermal and environmental stability. Although numerous studies on…
The paper reports optical orientation experiments performed in the narrow GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells doped with Mn. We experimentally demonstrate a control over the spin polarization by means of the optical orientation via the…
We present a theory that describes the appearance of circular polarization of the photoluminescence (PL) in ferromagnet-semiconductor hybrid heterostructures due to spin-dependent tunneling of photoexcited carriers from a quantum well into…
Growth of GaMnAs by molecular beam epitaxy is typically performed at low substrate temperatures (250C) and high As overpressures leading to the incorporation of excess As and Mn interstitials, which quench optical signals such as…
The spin-memory effect in the GaAs / InGaAs heterostructures with $\delta$<Mn> layer in GaAs barrier have been investigated. The effect consists in spin polarization of Mn atoms due to interaction with photogenerated spin-polarized holes.…
A magnetophotoluminescence study of the carrier transfer with hybrid InAs/GaAs quantum dot(QD)-InGaAs quantum well (QW) structures is carried out where we observe an unsual dependence of the photoluminescence (PL) on the GaAs barrier…
We present a theoretical study of (Ga,Mn)(As,C) diluted magnetic semiconductors with high C acceptor density that combines insights from phenomenological model and microscopic approaches. A tight-binding coherent potential approximation is…
We study light-induced nuclear spin-polarization in a thin film of Ga1-xMnxAs (x 0.04), a dilute ferromagnetic semiconductor, grown on a GaAs substrate. High-field inductively-detected Ga-71 NMR was performed with samples immersed in…
Mn2+-doped semiconductor nanocrystals with tuned location and concentration of Mn2+ ions can yield diverse coupling regimes, which can highly influence their optical properties such as emission wavelength and photoluminescence (PL)…
We present a detailed investigation of the mechanisms at play for the incorporation of In and Mg on the GaN(0001) surface during plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PAMBE). First, we have studied the kinetics of In desorption in the…
We report on a magneto-photoluminescence (PL) study of Mn modulation-doped InAs/InGaAs/InAlAs quantum wells. Two PL lines corresponding to the radiative recombination of photoelectrons with free and bound-on-Mn holes have been observed. In…
The interplay of tunneling transport and carrier-mediated ferromagnetism in narrow semiconductor multi-quantum well structures containing layers of GaMnAs is investigated within a self-consistent Green's function approach, accounting for…
Extensive studies on the impact of bismuth incorporation into the (Ga,Mn)As prototype dilute ferromagnetic semiconductor (DFS) on its structural, magnetic and magnetotransport properties are summarized in this review. Thin epitaxial layers…
We report on design, fabrication, and magnetooptical studies of a III-V/II-VI hybrid structure containing a GaAs/AlGaAs/ZnSe/ZnCdMnSe double quantum well (QW). The structure design allows one to tune the QW levels into the resonance, thus…
The electronic band structure of the (Ga,Mn)As system has been one of the most intriguing problems in solid state physics over the past two decades. Determination of the band structure evolution with increasing Mn concentration is a key…
Investigations of photoluminescence (PL) in the magnetic field of quantum structures based on the ZnSe quantum well with asymmetrical ZnBeMnSe and ZnBeSe barriers reveal that the introduction of Be into semimagnetic ZnMnSe causes a decrease…
Hybrid structures combining ferromagnetic (FM) and semiconductor constituents have great potential for future applications in the field of spintronics. A systematic approach to study spin-dependent transport in the GaMnAs/GaAs/InGaAs…
Doping a self-assembled InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot (QD) with a single Mn atom, a magnetic acceptor impurity, provides a quantum system with discrete energy levels and original spin-dependent optical selection rules, which thus has large…
Various types of magnetism can appear in emerging quantum materials such as van der Waals layered ones. Here, we report the successful doping of manganese atoms into a post-transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductor: SnSe$_2$. We…