DOI: 10.1063/1.4705419. Role of donor-acceptor complexes and impurity band in stabilizing ferromagnetic order in Cu-doped SnO2 thin films

Role of donor-acceptor complexes and impurity band in stabilizing ferromagnetic order in Cu-doped SnO2 thin films

10.1063/1.4705419

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Abstract

Our complementary magnetic and photoluminescence measurements reveal the correlation between the donor-acceptor complex and the ferromagnetic order in Cu-doped SnO2 thin films. Oxygen vacancies (VO) and Cu dopants form defect complexes of donor-acceptor pairs, and the associated spin-polarized impurity band leads to the narrowing of bandgap. Electronic structure calculations based on the first-principles method demonstrate that the Cu-VO complex has low formation energy and can stabilize the ferromagnetic coupling. Our results suggest that intrinsic defects and their complexes with dopants play a key role for establishing the ferromagnetic order in doped wide-bandgap oxides.

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Li, Y., Deng, R., Tian, Y., Yao, B., & Wu, T. (2012). Role of donor-acceptor complexes and impurity band in stabilizing ferromagnetic order in Cu-doped SnO2 thin films. Applied Physics Letters, 100(17).

Authors 5

Yongfeng Li (first)
Rui Deng (additional)
Yufeng Tian (additional)
Bin Yao (additional)
Tom Wu (additional)

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@article{Li_2012, title={Role of donor-acceptor complexes and impurity band in stabilizing ferromagnetic order in Cu-doped SnO2 thin films}, volume={100}, ISSN={1077-3118}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4705419}, DOI={10.1063/1.4705419}, number={17}, journal={Applied Physics Letters}, publisher={AIP Publishing}, author={Li, Yongfeng and Deng, Rui and Tian, Yufeng and Yao, Bin and Wu, Tom}, year={2012}, month=apr }

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