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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 75, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.195215
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The electronic structure of Zn1-xCoxO (x=0.02, 0.06, and 0.10) diluted magnetic semiconductors is investigated using soft x-ray emission spectroscopy and first-principles calculations. X-ray absorption and emission measurements reveal that most Co dopants are incorporated at the Zn sites and that free charge carriers are absent over a wide range of Co concentrations. The excess Co interstitials appear in the samples with high Co concentration (10 at. %) but are isolated without any direct exchange interaction with substitutional Co atoms. The lack of free charge carriers and the direct Co-Co interactions is responsible for the absence of ferromagnetism in the samples. First-principles calculations suggest that the exchange interaction between substitutional Co atoms induces only an antiferromagnetic coupling, and strong ferromagnetism in Co-doped ZnO requires not only free charge carriers but also the Co interstitials directly interacting with substitutional Co atoms.
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