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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 104, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4861936
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- Science Foundation of China [2011M500861]
- Faculty of Science Research Grant [IR001/PS30560]
- ARC at University of New South Wales [FT100100956]
- [SIR50/PS26746]
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To reveal the mechanism responsible for ferromagnetism in transition metal and hole codoped oxide semiconductors, we carry out a comparative study on Mn-doped and (Mn, N)-codoped ZnO nanopillars. Compared with Mn-doped ZnO samples, (Mn, N)-codoped ZnO nanopillars exhibit an enhanced room temperature ferromagnetism. The modulation of bound magnetic polarons via Mn and N codoping corroborates the correlation between the ferromagnetism and hole carriers, which is also verified by first-principles density functional theory calculations. Our study suggests that the electronic band alteration as a result of codoping engineering plays a critical role in stabilizing the long-range magnetic orderings. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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