Journal
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/27/8/085703
Keywords
LSMO/ZnS: Mn; magneto-optics; nanocomposites
Funding
- Institute for Functional Nanomaterials (NSF) [1002410]
- PR NASA EPSCoR (NASA) [NNX15AK43A]
- NSF CAREER Award [DMR-1056493]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1056493] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We report the tuning of the internal Mn photoluminescence (PL) transition of magnetically-ordered Sr-doped lanthanum manganite (LSMO)/Mn-doped zinc sulfide (ZnS:Mn) nanocomposites (NCs) by applying a static magnetic field in the range of 0-1 T below the critical temperature of similar to 225 K. To do that, we have systematically fabricated LSMO/ZnS: Mn at different concentrations (1: 1, 1: 3, 1: 5 and 1: 10 wt%) via a straightforward solid-state reaction. X-ray diffraction and Raman analyses reveal that both phases coexist with a high degree of crystallinity and purity. Electron microscopy indicates that the NCs are almost spherical with an average crystal size of similar to 6 nm, and that their surfaces are clean and smooth. The bifunctional character of LSMO/ZnS: Mn was evidenced by vibrating sample magnetometry and PL spectroscopy analyses, which show a marked ferromagnetic behavior and a broad, intense Mn orange emission band at room temperature. Moreover, the LSMO/ZnS: Mn at 1: 3 wt% exhibits magneto-luminescent (ML) coupling below 225 K, and reaches the largest suppression of Mn-band PL intensity (up to similar to 10%) at 150 K, when a magnetic field of 1.0 T is applied. The ML effect persists at magnetic fields as low as 0.2 T at 8 K, which can be explained by evoking a magnetic-ordering-induced spin-dependent restriction of the energy transfer to Mn states. No ML effect was observed in bare ZnS: Mn nanoparticles under the same experimental parameters. Our findings suggest that this NC can be considered as a new ML compound, similar to FeCo/InGaN-GaN and LSMO/ZnO NCs, useful as q-bits for quantum computation. The results presented here bring forth new avenues to better understand the interaction between semiconductors and perovskites, and exploit their synergistic effects in magneto-optics, spintronics and nanoelectronics.
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