Electronic structures of Fe3-x Mx O4 (M=Mn,Zn) spinel oxide thin films investigated by x-ray photoemission spectroscopy and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism

Junichi Takaobushi, Mizue Ishikawa, Shigenori Ueda, Eiji Ikenaga, Jung Jin Kim, Masaaki Kobata, Yukiharu Takeda, Yuji Saitoh, Makina Yabashi, Yoshinori Nishino, Daigo Miwa, Kenji Tamasaku, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Issei Satoh, Hidekazu Tanaka, Keisuke Kobayashi, Tomoji Kawai

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Abstract

We fabricated Fe3-x Mx O4 (M=Mn,Zn) thin film by pulsed laser deposition technique and investigated their electronic structure by hard x-ray photoemission spectroscopy (HX-PES) and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD). HX-PES and XMCD revealed that the solid solution system of Fe3-x Mx O4 (M=Mn,Zn) is the best candidate for tunable ferromagnetic oxide semiconductor judging from systematic change of Fe, Mn core-level spectra, and valence band spectra by substitution. We present a model to explain modulation of electric and magnetic properties and electronic structure evolution caused by strongly correlated electron.

Original languageEnglish
Article number205108
JournalPhysical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume76
Issue number20
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Nov 2007
Externally publishedYes

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