• Journal of Magnetics
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.163-167
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• 2012

The effects on the ferromagnetism of the O or Zn defect in Cu-doped ZnO with the concentration of 2.77-8.33% have been investigated by the first-principles calculations. The Cu doping in ZnO was calculated to be a kind of p-type ferromagnetic half-metals. When the Zn vacancy exists in Cu-doped ZnO, the Cu magnetic moment increases, while for the O vacancy it is reduced. It is noticeable that the ferromagnetic state was originated from the hybridized O(2p)-Cu(3d)-O(2p) chain formed through the p-d coupling. The carrier-mediated ferromagnetism by nitrogen or fluorine does not depend on their concentration.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.137-142
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• 2018

Room temperature ferromagnetism of Co doped ZnO was studied using (ZnO/Co) multilayer structure, and the effects of ZnO sub-layer thickness on the RT ferromagnetism was investigated. As for the as-deposited state, the diamagnetism was observed for ($ZnO\;20{\AA}/Co\;x{\AA}$) while the ferromagnetism was observed for ($ZnO\;40{\AA}/Co\;x{\AA}$). After vacuum-annealed, both showed the RT ferromagnetism and ($ZnO\;40{\AA}/Co\;x{\AA}$) structure interestingly showed negative remanence magnetization behavior. UV-Vis spectrometer revealed that Co atoms were substituted with Zn in ZnO and Co cluster was not found in XPS and HRTEM EDS analysis.

• Journal of Powder Materials
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• v.13 no.6 s.59
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• pp.401-407
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• 2006

Effects of oxygen deficiency on the room temperature ferromagnetism in Fe-doped reduced $TiO_2$ have been investigated by comparing the air-annealed $Ti_{0.97}Fe_{0.03}O_2$ compound with secondly post-annealed one in vacuum ambience. The air-annealed sample showed a paramagnetic behavior at room temperature. However, when the sample was further annealed in vacuum, a strongly enhanced ferromagnetic behavior was observed at same temperature. $M{\"{o}}ssbauer$ spectra of air-annealed sample at 295K showed a single doublet of $Fe^{3+}$, suggesting that the Fe ions are paramagnetic. On the other hand, the absorption spectra after vacuum-annealing exhibited two doublets, in which one is the same component with air-annealed sample and the other is new doublet corresponding to $Fe^{2+}$ state. This result suggests that the occurrence of ferromagnetism in reduced sample may be interpreted as the contribution of unquenched orbital moment of $Fe^{2+}$ ions.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.144-148
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• 2007

We report on the observation of p-type conductivity and ferromagnetism in diluted magnetic semiconductor $(Zn_{0.97}Mg_{0.01}Mn_{0.02})O:P$ films grown on $SiO_2/Si$ substrates by pulsed laser deposition. The p-type conduction with hole concentration over $10^{18}cm^{-3}$ is obtained by codoping of Mg and P followed by rapid thermal annealing in an $O_2$ atmosphere. Structural and compositional analyses for the p-type $(Zn_{0.97}Mg_{0.01}Mn_{0.02})O:P$ films annealed at $800^{\circ}C$ indicates that highly c-axis oriented homogeneous films were grown without any detectable formation of secondary phases. The films were found to be transparent in the visible range. The magnetic measurements clearly revealed an enhancement of room temperature ferromagnetism by p-type doping.

• Proceedings of the Korean Magnestics Society Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.266-267
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• 2003

The most distinguishing character of diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMSs) is a strong interaction between sp-carriers and localized d-spins (sp-d exchange interaction). Recently many "room-temperature (RT) ferromagnetic DMS" have been reported. However, it should be noted that their sp-d exchange interactions have not been confirmed yet. The lack of a clear evidence of the sp-d exchange interaction causes the controversy on the origin of the observed ferromagnetism. For the detection of the sp-d exchange interaction, magneto-optical spectroscopy such as a magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) measurement is the most powerful tool. By using the MCD spectroscopy, we have shown the sp-d exchange interactions in Zn$_{l-x}$Cr$_{x}$Te. Recently, we have obtained the RT ferromagnetism in a Zn$_{l-x}$Cr$_{x}$Te (x = 0.20) film.0) film.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.18.2-18.2
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korean Magnestics Society Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.264-265
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• 2003

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.206-210
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• 2006

A room-temperature ferromagnetism has been observed for oxygen-deficient rutile and anatase $TiO_{2-{\delta}}$ films. XPS data revealed the existence of $Ti^{3+}$ ions, for compensating the charge imbalance caused by oxygen vacancies in the film. The observed ferromagnetism is attributable to the spin ($3d^1$) alignment of the $Ti^{3+}$ ions. Such spin alignment can happen through magnetic polaron formed by trapped electron in oxygen vacancy and magnetic $Ti^{3+}$ ions around it.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.95-98
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• 2005

We report hole-induced ferromagnetism in diluted magnetic semiconductor $Zn_{0.99}Mn_{0.01}$ films grown on $SiO_2/Si$ substrates by reactive sputtering. The p-type conduction with hole concentration over $10^{18}\;cm^{-3}$ is achieved by P doping followed by rapid thermal annealing at $800^{\circ}C$ in a $N_2$ atmosphere. The p-type $Zn_{0.99}Mn_{0.01}O:P$ is carefully examined by x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. The magnetic measurements for $p-Zn_{0.99}Mn_{0.01}O:P$ clearly reveal ferromagnetic characteristics with a Curie temperature above room temperature, whereas those for $n-Zn_{0.99}Mn_{0.01}O:P$ show paramagnetic behavior. The anomalous Hall effect at room temperature is observed for the p-type film. This result strongly supports hole-induced room temperature ferromagnetism in $p-Zn_{0.99}Mn_{0.01}O:P$.

• Current Applied Physics
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.1422-1425
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• 2018

$NaTa_{1-x}Fe_xO_3$ ($0{\leq}x{\leq}0.40$) nanocubes were synthesized by a relatively low temperature hydrothermal method, using $Ta_2O_5$, $FeCl_3$ and NaOH as the precursors. The UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectra showed that $NaTa_{1-x}Fe_xO_3$ had significant visible-light-absorbing capability, and the absorption edge of $NaTaO_3$ shifted to longer wavelength with the increase of Fe dopants. Moreover, $NaTa_{1-x}Fe_xO_3$ exhibited room-temperature ferromagnetism when $Fe^{3+}$ occupied $Ta^{5+}$ sites in $NaTaO_3$ crystal lattice. The ferromagnetism is mainly attributed to the superexchange interactions between doped $Fe^{3+}$, rather than the contribution of oxygen vacancies caused by Fe doping. Therefore, Fe doping can simultaneously regulate the optical and magnetic properties of $NaTaO_3$ semiconductor, which will enable its potential applications in multifunctional optical-electronics and opticalspintronics devices.