Ferromagnetism in substituted zinc oxide

Details Ferromagnetism in substituted zinc oxide Ferromagnetism in substituted zinc oxide

2004-06-29

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0406719v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

15 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.177206

Room-temperature ferromagnetism is observed in (110) oriented ZnO films containing 5 at % of Sc, Ti, V, Fe, Co or Ni, but not Cr, Mn or Cu ions. There are large moments, 1.9 and 0.5 muB/atom for Co- and Ti-substituted oxides, respectively. Sc-substituted ZnO shows also a moment of 0.3 muB/Sc. Magnetization is very anisotropic, with variations of up to a factor three depending on the orientation of the applied field relative to the R-cut sapphire substrates. Results are interpreted in terms of a spin-split donor impurity band model, which can account for ferromagnetism in insulating or conducting high-k oxides with concentrations of magnetic ions that lie far below the percolation threshold. The variation of the ferromagnetism with oxygen pressure used during film growth is evidence of a link between ferromagnetism and defect concentration.

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