Ebook: Relationship Between Structure and Magnetic Behaviour in ZnO-Based Systems
Author: Clara Guglieri Rodríguez (auth.)
- Tags: Magnetism Magnetic Materials, Surfaces and Interfaces Thin Films, Quantum Information Technology Spintronics, Semiconductors, Surface and Interface Science Thin Films
- Series: Springer Theses
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This work studies the magnetic behavior of ZnO nanoparticles capped with different organic molecules and showing room-temperature ferromagnetism (RTFM). Of particular significance is the combination of element-specific X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) techniques, which demonstrates the intrinsic occurrence of RTFM in these systems and indicates that it is not related to the 3-D states of the metallic cation but is relayed along the conduction band of the semiconductor. The discovery of room-temperature ferromagnetism (RTFM) in semiconductors holds great promise in future spintronics technologies.
Further results presented here include O K-edge XMCD studies, which demonstrate that the oxygen ions have a ferromagnetic response in these ZnO-based systems, providing the first direct support for claims regarding the appearance of oxygen ferromagnetism in oxide semiconductors at the nanoscale.