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http://dx.doi.org/10.4283/JKMS.2005.15.1.001

First Principles Calculations on Electronic Structure and Magnetism of Transition Metal Doped ZnO  

Yun, Sun-Young (Department of Physics, University of Ulsan)
Cha, Gi-Beom (Department of Physics, University of Ulsan)
Hong, Sun-C. (Department of Physics, University of Ulsan)
Abstract
In this study we investigate the electronic structure and magnetism of transition metal (TM = Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Ru, Pd, Ag ) deped ZnO($TM_{0.25}Zn_{0.75}O$), which are expected to have Curie temperature. Full-potential Linearized Augmented Plane Wave(FLAPW) metod is adopted with exchange-correlation potential expressed as general gradient approximation(GGA). The calculated magnetic moments of ($TM_{0.25}Zn_{0.75}O$) are 0.83, 3.03, 4.03, 3.48, 2.47, 1.56, 0.43, 0.75, 0.01 ${\mu}_B$ for TM = Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Ru, Pd, Ag, respectively. The nearest neighbor O atom to the transition metal is calculated to have a significant magnetic moment of about 0.1${\mu}_B$, ?? 새 strong hybridization between O-p and TM-d bands. As the results, the systems may have larger magnetic moments in total, compared to the corresponding isolated atoms. The 3d TM doped systems exhibit the half-metallic character except Co, wheres the 4d TM doped systems behave like normal metals and low spin polarization at the Fermi levels.
Keywords
ZnO; magnetic semiconductor; first principles calculation; electronic structure; spin polarization;
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