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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 101, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2712018
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Indium oxide is chosen as the host material for doping Ti, V, and Cr transition metal ions. Theoretical calculations based on density functional theory within a local spin density approximation show that V-V separation of 5.6 A is more stable with a strong ferromagnetic coupling. Our calculations clearly predict that substitution of vanadium for indium should yield ferromagnetism in In2O3. Experimentally, (In0.95TM0.05)O-3 (TM=Ti,V,Cr) were prepared using sol-gel as well as solid state reaction methods. Superconducting quantum interference device magnetization measurements as a function of field and temperature clearly showed that the V and Cr doped samples are ferromagnetic with Curie temperature well above room temperature. Thin films deposited by pulsed laser ablation using these materials on sapphire substrates exhibit a preferred 222 orientation normal to the plane of the film. The magnetic moment for (In0.95V0.05)O-3 film deposited in 0.1 mbar oxygen pressure was estimated to be 1.7 mu(B)/V and is comparable to the theoretical value of 2 mu(B)/V. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
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