Interfacial dominated ferromagnetism in nanograined ZnO: a μSR and DFT study

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 5; no. 1; p. 8871
• Main Authors: Tietze, Thomas, Audehm, Patrick, Chen, Yu–Chun, Schütz, Gisela, Straumal, Boris B., Protasova, Svetlana G., Mazilkin, Andrey A., Straumal, Petr B., Prokscha, Thomas, Luetkens, Hubertus, Salman, Zaher, Suter, Andreas, Baretzky, Brigitte, Fink, Karin, Wenzel, Wolfgang, Danilov, Denis, Goering, Eberhard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 09.03.2015; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 147/143; 639/301/357/354; 639/301/357/997; 639/925/357/995; 639/925/357/997; Humanities and Social Sciences; multidisciplinary; Science

Diamagnetic oxides can, under certain conditions, become ferromagnetic at room temperature and therefore are promising candidates for future material in spintronic devices. Contrary to early predictions, doping ZnO with uniformly distributed magnetic ions is not essential to obtain ferromagnetic sam...