Motion of Diamagnetic Muonium Centres in II-IV-V2 Chalcopyrites

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We propose to obtain the detailed temperature dependent diffusion characteristics for diamagnetic muonium defect centres, assumed to be a 'bare' muon, in selected members of the II-IV-V2 class of chalcopyrite structured semiconductors. These materials are strong candidates for spintronics applications, showing ferromagnetism with Tc above 300 K when doped with Mn. MuSR can provide detailed information on the microscopic distribution of local magnetic fields. However, claims of a very uniform distribution of internal fields, e.g. in Mn-doped CdGeAs2, rely on an assumption that the muon probe remains stationary. Results of this project will yield the motional properties of the muon probe in undoped II-VI-V2 host materials, which is critical to properly interpreting results of MuSR data on the Mn doped chalcopyrites, as well as characterizing hydrogen behaviour in these compounds.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24077445
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24077445
Provenance
Creator Professor Roger Lichti; Dr Gurkan Celebi
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-09-29T09:17:30Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-10-03T06:38:05Z