Optical and Magnetic Properties of Zn1-xMnxO Grown by Plasma-Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Abstract

Zn1-xMnxO films (0 <= x <= 0.070) were grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy on Si substrates with AlN buffer layers. For low Mn concentration samples, x <= 0.02, photoluminescence spectra show strong near band edge emission. Strong phonon and exciton coupling-induced resonant Raman scattering was observed. Paramagnetic, antiferromagnetic, and ferromagnetic phases were observed. Room temperature ferromagnetism for all samples was attributed to the bound magnetic polaron effect.