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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 83, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.184417
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- European Research Council, European Commission [POIG.01.03.01-00-159/08]
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A first-principles density functional theory-generalized gradient approximation DFT-GGA+U study of the doping of bulk GaN and its surface with Cr, Mn, and Fe confirms a strong tendency of these magnetic ions, occupying Ga sites of the wurtzite and zinc blende phases of GaN, to form embedded clusters. Our study reveals that the tendency for aggregation is larger in the case of Cr and Mn ions than for Fe ions. In contrast to previous DFT-GGA calculations, we predict a ferromagnetic ordering of the Cr and Mn clusters consisting of more than two atoms, whereas it turns out that the Fe clusters are all antiferromagnetic. We have also investigated the magnetic ordering of the nearest-neighbor ionic pairs that substitute gallium atoms at the (0001) wz-GaN surface. We find that Fe ions tend to aggregate, whereas there is a mutual repulsive interaction in the case of Cr and Mn. The nearest neighbor Mn and Fe pairs are coupled antiferromagnetically, whereas the Cr pair is coupled ferromagnetically. Further, the relevance of our findings to recent experimental results is discussed.
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