Journal
JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS
Volume 340, Issue -, Pages 5-9Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2013.03.026
Keywords
FeZnO; Solid-state reaction; Ferromagnetism; Double exchange interaction
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province, China [2010J01305]
- Science and Technology Program of Quanzhou, China [2009G8]
- Quanzhou Excellent Talents Training Grant [12A17]
- Oulu University
- Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering of the Academy of Finland
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We report on a study of magnetism of Fe-doped ZnO powders and tablets synthesized via the solid-state reaction route. The X-ray diffraction results indicate that the solid solubility of Fe in ZnO was less than 1%. When the concentration of Fe was more than 2%, a second phase of ZnFe2O4 was detected. All samples were ferromagnetic in the room temperature and the Hall effect was observed. Calculations based on the density functional theory (DFT+U) indicated two origins for the observed ferromagnetism. The first source is considered to occur due to the second phase of the inverse spinel-type ZnFe2O4 where the antiferromagnetic states of the Fe2Zn14O16 system were preferred through Fe2+ -O2--Fe2+ or Fe3+ -O2- -Fe3+ bonding. The second appears to originate from the ferromagnetic states of the Fe2Zn14O16 system with the Fe3+ -O2--Fe2+ bond. The bond is suggested to form due to the double exchange interaction with the Fe2+ and Fe3- ions substituting the Zn2+ ions in the ZnO lattice, yielding an intrinsic ferromagnetic oxide semiconductor. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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